WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users

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Meta’s Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users across the United States on Wednesday (December 11, 2024), according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 105,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 70,000 with Instagram, in an outage that started around 12:50 p.m. ET.

Hi, we’re know there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access Instagram.

We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and are sorry for any inconvenience.

— Instagram (@instagram) December 11, 2024

WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging application, was also down for more than 12,000 users, according to Downdetector.com.

We’re 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.

— Meta Newsroom (@MetaNewsroom) December 11, 2024

The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on rival platform X that they were encountering an error that said “something went wrong” and that Meta was working to get it fixed.

Hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users were impacted globally for more than two hours.

Published – December 12, 2024 12:33 am IST

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