Some of Meta’s products had a hard time on Friday morning.
Services like Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp all experienced temporary service outages to start the weekend. The cause is unknown at this point in time, but Meta’s VP of communications, Andy Stone, acknowledged the outage on X.
Stone said Meta’s engineers are working on it.
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In addition, the platform DownDetector recorded spikes in user error reports for Meta products on Friday. A peak of 10,000 users reported problems accessing Instagram, with the majority reporting problems with the app.
According to DownDetector users (Disclosure: Mashable and Down Detector have the same parent company, Ziff Davis), Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced problems starting in the late morning on Friday. On top of that, Meta’s status page for its business applications also noted “High Disruptions” on Friday morning, too.
Anecdotally, multiple Mashable staff members have had a hard time posting or sending messages on Instagram during this outage. It’s unclear exactly when the problem will be resolved, but at the very least, Meta is aware of it and is doing something about it.
This is a developing story…