Meta has been experiencing a widespread outage across its social media and messaging apps on Wednesday, with Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads all having problems loading.

Meta apps and services like Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Messenger are down as part of an apparent outage. Staff at Engadget and users across X and Bluesky have reported issues loading Meta’s websites and logging in.

Meta's status and outages page for its business products reported that, as of just before 2 p.m. EST, there were "major disruptions" affecting Facebook Ads Manager, Messaging Ads, the Messenger API for Instagram,

Meta has experienced a major global outage with thousands of users reporting Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp issues. "We're aware that a technical issue is impacting some users' ability to access our apps.

Outages began rising rapidly around 12:30 p.m., with more than 100,000 Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users reporting problems by around 1:10 p.m.

Meta apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp aren't loading for some users across the world and are showing error messages. Why it matters: The global outage follows Meta's outage from March that took down Facebook and Instagram for more than two hours due to a technical issue.

Meta companies — namely giants Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp — all appeared to have had issues and, in some cases, crashed for users on Wednesday. Reports of problems with the major social and messaging platforms spiked on Down Detector — which,