According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 18,000 Instagram users reported issues with accessing Facebook app. Outage reports also spiked for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, Downdetector.com data showed.

Meta Social Media Apps Outage: Social media apps of Meta Platforms Inc were down for thousands of users in the United States on Wednesday. According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 18,000 Instagram users reported issues with accessing the app and about 13,000 incidents were reported for the Facebook app. Outage reports also spiked for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, Downdetector.com data showed.

WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger users also faced the outage, as per the website. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Outages of Big Tech platforms are not uncommon as several companies ranging from Google to Microsoft have seen service disruptions.

Microsoft was hit with a networking outage earlier on Wednesday that took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook, affecting millions of users globally.