A bunch of Meta apps are down right now. For many staffers at The Verge, apps like Facebook and Instagram haven’t been loading or, when they do, show older posts. Threads seems to be recovering, though it sometimes is loading slowly for me.
“We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps,” Meta says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.”
“We know there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access Instagram,” Instagram says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and are sorry for any inconvenience.”
Hi, we 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.#instagramdown
— Instagram (@instagram) December 11, 2024
Downdetector is showing big and sudden spikes for Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, indicating a lot of people have been affected by the outages. The Instagram Downdetector page, for example, shows a peak of more than 70,000 reports of issues with the platform. The Facebook peak exceeded 100,000.
This big outage follows another large Meta outage from March that took down Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta also saw a major outage affecting Instagram and Facebook in October 2022.
Update, December 11th: Added Meta and Instagram comments.