Meta’s Facebook, Instagram go down due to ‘technical issue’

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go down due to ‘technical issue’

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. 

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Meta’s family of apps including

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were down on Wednesday, resulting in users being unable to access the services.

The widespread outages began around 9:57 a.m. PST and affected the social media company’s core apps as well as Threads, WhatsApp and Messenger, according to user-submitted reports gathered by the internet-monitoring site Downdetector.

Over 100,000 users experienced problems using the

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service at 10:11 a.m. PST, representing the peak of the outages, according to Downdetector.

Meta acknowledged the outage via a

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on X, saying that the company is “aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps.”

“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience,” the X post said.

A separate

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also acknowledged the outage, and said that the company recognizes “there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access

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Meta’s various apps experienced a roughly two-hour outage in March 2024, on the same day as the Super Tuesday U.S. presidential primaries.

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