Meta is DOWN: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook outage hits thousands of users worldwide due to...

Users reported sadness as access to favored apps went temporarily offline. DownDetector reports that Meta's network of sites tanked at roughly 18:00 GMTA trifecta of Meta-owned social media sites, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp went down for users worldwide Wednesday afternoon, leaving thousands disconnected from family, friends, memes, and their favorite influencers' feeds.

According to DownDetector, a website which monitors such outages, reports of problems on the platforms first began to surface at about 18:00 GMT . Complaints regarding Facebook service was comparatively limited, only 714 reports based on one early notice from Down Detector Advertisement Instagram logged thousands of complaints within the first half hour of the outage above 3,100 — but messaging service WhatsApp received the most complaints, clearing over 10,000 reports in that same amount of time.

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