Meta's Instagram back online following worldwide outages
Some Facebook, Instagram users posted on X about encountering an error that said "something went wrong"
Instagram, the Meta-owned photo and video-sharing social media platform, said that its services were back online after thousands of users experienced technical issues accessing its platform on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
According to Downdetector, around 12:50pm ET, which marked the start of the peak of the outage, more than 100,000 incidents were reported with Facebook and nearly 70,000 with Instagram.
However, the number of reports has now come down to over 1,000 for both apps as of 6pm ET.
Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.
Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on X that they were encountering an error that said "something went wrong" and that Meta was working to get it fixed.
Earlier this year, a technical issue led to an outage that impacted hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users globally for more than two.
The platforms faced another outage in October, when services were largely restored within an hour.
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