Facebook is down and users are reporting outages to downdetector, the site that reports problems with popular websites. The Facebook spike started shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The biggest problem occured on the mobile app, where 57% of the problems were reported. The site had another 33% of the problems. And it was happening all over.

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's Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users across the United States on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 27,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 28,

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

Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram social media platforms were down for thousands of users worldwide, including Pakistan, on Wednesday night, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

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.

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

Update: Meta reported at 4:26 p.m. on Dec. 11 that the majority of its outage issues on Wednesday have been resolved. TOPEKA (KSNT) – Reports of the technology company Meta experiencing an outage with its social media platforms are rising Wednesday across the nation.

ET, users started reporting issues with Facebook and other Meta platforms including Instagram. The outage tracking site downdetector.com registered more than 100,000 reports of Facebook outages in the past hour.