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.

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.

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,

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.

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

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

Meta announced a technical issue Wednesday afternoon disrupting access to the technology conglomerate’s apps. The company owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. On X, formerly known as Twitter, Meta said the issue is impacting some users’ ability to access apps. The company said it is working to get access returned as soon as possible.