Meta suffered a worldwide outage plaguing Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Messenger.
Users from across the US reported problems with the apps and websites starting around 1pm ET.
Meta announced at 5:30pm: ‘We’re 99% of the way there – just doing some last checks. We apologize to those who’ve been affected by the outage.’
Downdetector, a site that monitors online outage, received more than 130,000 complaints for the platforms.
The UK and parts of Europe, Asia, Australia and South American are also experienced glitches.
Meta suffered a worldwide outage plaguing Instagram , Facebook , WhatsApp, Threads and Messenger
There are several memes showing Zuckerberg downloading X due to the Meta outage
The most reported problems for Facebook, Instagram and Threads included the app, website and server connection.
While Messenger and WhatsApp users say problems hit the app, login and sending messages.
On Downdetector, Facebook showed over 100,000 issue reports, Instagram has 62,000, Messenger 10,000, WhatsApp 11,000 and Threads has 871.
Users have flocked to Elon Musk’s X to share frustrations about Meta’s services being down, with many criticizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
‘Elon musk to Mark Zuckerberg: ‘You’re sinking my friend,” one user shared on X.
Another posted: ‘Mark Zuckerberg needs to work on this cos it’s becoming too frequent.’
There were several memes showing Zuckerberg downloading X due to the Meta outage.
Meta’s last outage hit in October, taking down Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.