71% of the complaints from Facebook users mentioned issues with the website, 20% had an issue with the app while 10% couldn’t login to the social media site. Several complaints said that Facebook was not loading. As for Instagram, 55% of the complaints revolved around the app, 33% complained about a server connection, and 12% could nor login. The comments posted on DownDetector noted how the app was not up and running this evening. As one user wrote, “Ughhh wtf?”
Facebook and Instagram are down on both U.S. coasts
Instagram’s Threads social media platform also saw a huge surge in complaints filed with DownDetector although the latter says that the platform is only showing a “possible problem.” From no complaints at all at 7:19 pm ET, 125 complaints were tallied at 9:49 pm ET. 72% of Threads users had issues with the app, 25% complained about the website, and 3% had a problem with a server connection. As one Threads user said on DownDetector, “Threads is down big time for me. Anyone else?”
Instagram and Facebook are down along both U.S. coasts
Another Meta connected platform showing a possible problem on DownDetector is Facebook Messenger.
Outages of these Meta services seem to be heavily concentrated in New York and California. So far we have not seen any comment from the company.
This is a developing story and will be updated. Please check back later.
