Meta’s social networking applications: The social media apps from Meta Platforms Inc. appeared to be operational again following a brief outage on Wednesday in the United States, according to data from the outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.
As of 2352 GMT, more than 17,000 user reports have indicated problems with Instagram in the United States at the height of the outage.
More than 13,000 instances involving the Facebook app were reported. At around the same time, outage reports for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger briefly increased. The number of reported instances for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were around the same.
By combining status information from many sources, including user-submitted problems on its platform, Downdetector keeps track of outages.
Big Tech platform outages are prevalent, as evidenced by the service interruptions experienced by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure was affected by a networking outage on Wednesday. This outage also impacted applications such as Teams and Outlook. Millions of customers worldwide were affected by this outage.
A request for comment from Reuters was not immediately answered by Meta.