Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage
Meta's techies are likely having a bad day as the internet titan's Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and Instagram are suffering some degree of downtime globally.
Services started dropping off around 0900 PT (1700 UTC). As you might expect from a huge distributed system, some people can or could get through to Meta's apps and sites as normal, and some are ran or are still running into errors and unable to use stuff as expected.
WhatsApp appeared to be getting back online at one point but again fell down. Meta's status page reports "major" disruption to all of the platform's services, at time of writing, with the odd exception of ad transparency tools experiencing just "some" disruption.
Downdetector was flooded with complaints from netizens unable to get their usual fix of Facebook, Insta, and Threads as well as WhatsApp.
It's not a total outage, it seems. Informal testing by your humble vultures around the world indicated that there are problems in Europe, US, and Asia-Pacific, but even then people sitting next to each other in an office are getting different results.
