Meta did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. Microsoft was hit with a networking outage earlier on Wednesday that took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook, affecting millions of users globally. Outages of Big Tech platforms are not uncommon as several companies ranging from Google to Microsoft have seen service disruptions. I believe the whole app is down and Instagram too. Outage reports also spiked for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, data showed.ĭowndetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. User reports indicate Facebook Messenger is having problems since 11:44 AM EDT.

More than 18,000 Instagram users reported issues with accessing the app and about 13,000 incidents were reported for the Facebook app, according to. (Reuters) -Meta Platforms Inc’s social media apps were down on Wednesday for thousands of users in the United States, according to outage tracking website.

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