WhatsApp, Instagram And Facebook Down For Thousands Globally

Meta Platforms's social media offerings Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp were down for thousands of users across the globe on Wednesday, according to Downdetector.com.

Facebook was down for more than 50,000 users while Instagram was down for more than 23,000 users, according to the outage tracking website.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users.

Several users thronged Twitter to post about the outage. While some had genuine queries about the outage, many gave it a hilarious spin by posting memes.

everyone running to twitter to check if instagram is down#Metadown pic.twitter.com/Qbt3Wb5odv

— बिलार 😾 (@chad_dad0) December 11, 2024

Me checking Twitter to confirm if instagram, facebook and whatsapp are down #instagramdown #facebookdown #whatsappdown #metadown pic.twitter.com/SbGp4uouPv

— 𝕏 🧑‍💻 (@IamutX) December 11, 2024