Meta’s applications are down! Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are experiencing outages
Meta’s applications are down! Facebook, Instagram and Messenger experience blackouts that affect thousands of people around the world
- Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are currently down around the world
- The issues started around 1:45 p.m. ET and mostly affect apps
- However, users are reporting issues while using Messenger on desktop computer.
A trio of popular Meta apps are down, leaving thousands of users around the world without service.
The Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger apps started experiencing issues around 1:45 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
All of the issues are from the apps except the messenger ones – users say the messaging service isn’t working on the desktop.
DownDetector, an online site that shows such outages, shows that users in New York are having issues with all three apps, as well as those in Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona.
A trio of popular Meta apps are down, leaving thousands of users around the world without service. The Facebook, Instagram and Messenger apps started to experience issues around 1:45 p.m. ET on Wednesday
The blackout is global, affecting several countries including Mexico, Australia and many countries in Europe.
However, Instagram and Facebook users can bypass the outage by using the platform’s live site – Messenger is down for both the app and the desktop.
Instagram seems to have the most problem reports on DownDetector, followed by Facebook, then Messenger.
It is not known why the services are down and when they will be operational.
Instagram seems to have the most problem reports on DownDetector, which is down in major US cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco
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