The Meta companies – the giants of Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp – all seem to have problems and, in some cases, crashed for users on Wednesday.
Reports of problems with the major social media and messaging platforms came in from Down Detector — which, full disclosure, is owned by the same parent company as Mashable — at around 1:00 EST. User-generated reports on Down Detector showed all of Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads all had a huge spike in news at the same time.
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People have posted on social media about apps going down.
The Tweet may have been deleted
The Tweet may have been deleted
There is no immediate confirmation of problems from Meta and the increasing number of reports seems to be decreasing in Down Detector. As of about 1:41 pm EST I was able to load large Meta apps and websites, so maybe the problems were being solved as quickly as they appeared.