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.

Meta owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Whatsapp. Downdetector showed 8,234 reports of outages from Whatsapp users. Among those, 82 percent reported problems with sending messages.

USA TODAY reported Wednesday that Downdetector showed big spikes for Instagram with 70,000 outage reports above average and Facebook, which had over 100,000 outage reports, WhatsApp Messenger was showing more than 10,000 reports of outages.

Meta-owned Instagram said its services were back online after thousands of users experienced technical issues accessing its platform on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

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.

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

Meta appears to be having a widespread outage across its social media and messaging apps, with Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads all experiencing problems loading. Instagram is showing error messages on the web,

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.