Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.
David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Meta’s family of apps including Facebook and Instagram were down on Wednesday, resulting in users being unable to access the services.
The widespread outages began around 9:57 a.m. PST and affected the social media company’s core apps as well as Threads, WhatsApp and Messenger, according to user-submitted reports gathered by the internet-monitoring site Downdetector.
Over 100,000 users experienced problems using the Facebook service at 10:11 a.m. PST, representing the peak of the outages, according to Downdetector.
Meta acknowledged the outage via a post on X, saying that the company is “aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps.”
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience,” the X post said.
A separate Instagram-specific X post also acknowledged the outage, and said that the company recognizes “there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access Instagram.”
Meta’s various apps experienced a roughly two-hour outage in March 2024, on the same day as the Super Tuesday U.S. presidential primaries.
Watch: If the U.S. bans TikTok, China could retaliate and target Tesla and Apple
