FacebookandInstagramseemed to struggle the most but Messenger, Threads andWhatsappwere experiencing issues.
Reports started coming in around 9:30 a.m. Pacific and lasted through about 2:30 p.m. Pacific.
Were working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience."
As of this writing, all of the affected social media platforms appear to be back to normal.
Facebook showing fault signal
Currently, if you attempt to access Facebook, this fault signal appears.
Whatsapp and Facebook reporting are already in decline with Whatsapp nearly back to normal.
Instagram, Messenger and Threads are still high with 1000s saying they can’t access those services.
It’s not clear what is affecting those services based on the status bar though.
Down from peak but ongoing
The outage appears down from its initial peak but still ongoing.
Instagram also used Xto report the outage.
Facebook sharply declined but comes off as holding steady around 21,000 reports.
Instragram shows similar numbers.
Whatsapp sharply dipped down but has peaked again over 6,000 reports.
Messenger appears to similar to Whatsapp though it hasn’t peaked again.
Threads seems fine, but do people use it?
Meta response
Tom’s Guide reached out to Meta about the outage.
A spokesperson directed us to the X post the company made about the ongoing outage.
Were working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.
Meta status page shows more disruptions
The outage has been ongoing for about 2 hours now.
It has not reached out the highs of its initial peak but does appear to be holding steady.
TheMeta status pageis showing more services disrupted.
Instragram seemed a little slow.
Facebook however, isn’t showing stories or recent posts.
And it seems to be the hardest hit based on the Meta page.
Their tracking has seen the reports sharply decline.
Meanwhile, concerned users are looking to Reddit, X and Bluesky to get more information.
TheFacebookandInstagram subreddits, for example, are filled with people wondering what’s going on.
The Meta status page has been fully read for the last 15 minutes.
As of this writing, Meta has not released a follow up statement to the initial X post.
Similar statements were posted on the Whatsapp and Instagram X feeds.
So it’s not clear if the outage is affecting every region equally or not.
ThousandEyes is detecting internal server errors and timeouts, which may indicate issues with Meta’s backend services.
Facebook and Instagram still appear to be hurting.
ThousandEyes, a security company owned by Cisco, reached out to us sharing their analysis of the outage.
They believe that Meta may be having issues on the back-end, suggesting an internal server problem.
Threads, Messenger and Whatsapp have been fairly solid for the last hour or so.
The Meta status page still has everything in the red as of 2:01 pm Pacific.
That said, we’re seeing far fewer posts on other platforms about the services being down.
Those things appear to be returned on Facebook as well.
Meta has not officially responded since its initial posting and statement.
Meta says things are 99% back
Thanks for bearing with us!
Were 99% of the way there - just doing some last checks.
The post read, “Thanks for bearing with us!
Were 99% of the way there - just doing some last checks.
We apologize to those whove been affected by the outage.”
