Meta apps and companies like Instagram, Fb, Threads and Messenger are nonetheless expertise points over two hours after a significant outage prevented customers from logging in and even loading the corporate’s web sites. Employees at Engadget and customers throughout X and Bluesky have reported issues loading and utilizing Meta’s apps. For some time even Meta’s firm website was displaying the textual content “This web page isn’t accessible proper now.”
There have been over 90,000 studies of points for Fb.com alone on Downdetector, and the positioning continues to be exhibiting some outage studies for Whatsapp, Threads, and Messenger. The problem is clearly not focused on a single Meta app or service, both. The corporate’s personal standing web page for enterprise prospects exhibits “main disruptions” throughout almost all of Meta’s APIs and advert instruments, too.
When Engadget reached Meta for remark the corporate pointed to a short assertion on X acknowledging the difficulty.
We’re conscious {that a} technical problem is impacting some customers’ capability to entry our apps. We’re working to get issues again to regular as rapidly as potential and apologize for any inconvenience.
— Meta (@Meta) December 11, 2024
Meta final handled a significant outage in March 2024 that prevented customers from accessing its apps and companies for 2 hours. The final outage was attributed to a “technical problem” by Meta communications director Andy Stone, which is identical clarification Meta has provided to date in the present day, however it’s not clear when the difficulty will likely be absolutely resolved.
Replace, Dec 11 2024, 4:50PM ET: Added extra particulars on outage size and affect on Meta enterprise instruments.