Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger ALL suffer from outages

Nearly all of Facebook owner Meta’s social media sites and apps experienced reports of outages today, with Instagram users in New York and Los Angeles being the worst affected.

According to DownDetector, a website that monitors such outages, reports of issues with the platform first surfaced at approximately 6:30 PM GMT (2:30 PM ET).

All told, more than 10,000 reports of outages have been received from users across the mainland United States.

Users mostly said they couldn’t send messages, but others reported they couldn’t receive them. Some users even stated that they could not access the apps at all.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger went offline today, with users around the world complaining about issues. Instagram users reported having significant problems in New York; Los Angeles; and oddly enough Wichita, Kansas. This story is in development and will be updated

A heatmap of complaints over the past hour compiled by DownDetector shows clusters of Instagram outages scattered across New York; Los Angeles; and oddly enough Wichita, Kansas

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has not revealed a root cause for the problem, but the problem appears to be improving slightly for Facebook and WhatsApp.

A heat map of user complaints in the past hour, compiled by down detector, showed clusters of reported Instagram outages, particularly across New York; Los Angeles; and oddly enough Wichita, Kansas.

Today’s Meta outages come four months after Facebook Messenger had similar outages last February.

This story is in development and will be updated as more information emerges.