Meta apps like Instagram, Facebook and Threads are experiencing issues on Wednesday afternoon as error messages are being reported by people across the internet. Outage tracker Downdetector shows big spikes for Instagram with 70,000 outage reports above average and Facebook, which had over 100,000 outage reports, as of Wednesday afternoon.

Meta's Facebook was down for more than 50,000 users on Wednesday, while Instagram was down for more than 23,000 users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. (Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru;

Meta apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp aren't loading for some users across the world and are showing error messages. Why it matters: The global outage follows Meta's outage from March that took down Facebook and Instagram for more than two hours due to a technical issue.

Meta apps and services like Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Messenger are down as part of an apparent outage. Staff at Engadget and users across X and Bluesky have reported issues loading Meta’s websites and logging in.

Meta users were reporting issues with Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp. Here's what Arizona social media users need to know about the outage.

User generated reports on Down Detector showed all Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads all having a major spike in issues at the same time. People posted on social media about the apps going down.