Once again this year – Instagram and Facebook apps crashed: if you tried to upload a post and failed, you are not alone. Yesterday (Wednesday), users around the world reported widespread outages on Meta services including Instagram, Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp and Messenger. According to user reports, the apps experienced various errors, including blank screens on Instagram and difficulty sending and receiving messages on WhatsApp and Messenger.
Additional failures have also been recorded in the last few hours in the Telegram, YouTube and Twitter applications. Google, GPT Chat The glitches were spotted by Downdetector, which reported more than 100,000 glitch reports on Facebook and about 70,000 on Instagram by early afternoon.
The peak of reports was recorded at 1:10 PM EST, after which a gradual decline in the number of complaints began. In addition, the WhatsApp service, which is one of Meta’s most popular, also suffered a large-scale outage that affected many users. Many journalists in the US They confirmed that they experienced problems accessing the apps, with some encountering blank screens on Instagram for several minutes.
Meta addressed the glitch in posts it published on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter), in which it acknowledged the accessibility issues reported by some users. The statement said: “We are working on returning services to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience caused.”
These kinds of glitches are nothing new for Meta. During the past year, the company experienced several significant failures in its services. One of them occurred in April 2024, when users around the world reported difficulties sending messages on WhatsApp and using Instagram. Additional malfunctions were also recorded in March 2021, when the company’s services were shut down for an hour, which led to angry reactions on social networks.
The increasing dependence of private and business users on Meta services emphasizes the need for the stability of the company’s infrastructure. These events sharpen the technological challenges faced by Meta in managing social networks on a global scale. Despite her apology, repeated failures may harm the trust of users and increase the search for other technological alternatives.
At the same time, these events raise questions about Meta’s readiness to deal with large-scale technical glitches. The future will show if Meta invests additional resources to prevent similar failures and improve the reliability of its services, which is necessary to maintain user satisfaction and its continued success in the social networking market.