Just before 5:30 p.m., the number of reported outages on Facebook had dropped to just over 1,200, Instagram reports fell to about 1,900 from a peak of more than 68,000 and reports of issues on WhatsApp and Messenger were far below their peaks.

Meta says most issues have been resolved after apps like Instagram, Facebook and Threads were experiencing issues on Wednesday afternoon and errors were reported by people across the internet. In a post on X, Meta apologized for Wednesday's outage. "Thanks for bearing with us! We’re 99% of the way there - just doing some last checks," Meta said.

Users reported problems accessing many of Meta's social media services, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.

A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are run by the social media giant Meta.

More than 100,000 Facebook users reported outages Wednesday afternoon. Other Meta apps also went down. Here's what to know.

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.

Tech company Meta recently experienced a massive outage that affected the functioning of its apps, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. This has made many netizens and social media users curious about the situation and wonder why Facebook and other social media applications went down.

Outage tracker Downdetector shows big spikes for Instagram with 70,000 outage reports above average and Facebook, which had over 100,000 outage reports, as of Wednesday afternoon. Outage reports began to decline in volume after a peak around 1:10 p.m. ET.

We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps,” the company said Wednesday.

In March, Facebook and Instagram users found themselves locked out of their accounts during a widespread outage that also impacted Messenger and Threads. Andy Stone, Meta’s head of communications, addressed the outage on X, explaining that “a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services.”