Social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down amid a widespread Meta outage.
Website Downdetector, which monitors where there are issues with websites and apps, showed large spikes for Facebook and other Meta apps with people saying they had been affected by the outage.
According to Downdetector, Facebook outages were first reported at about 6pm today and have reached more than 100,000 complaints of an issue.
Users also complained about having issues with Instagram with 11,891 being registered by Downdetector since 6pm. Both social media apps are operated by Meta.
WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, saw numerous reported disruptions around the same time frame today. According to the Downdetector website there were more than 9,600 outage reports since 6pm.
Many users in the US, including Nigeria were among those who made complaints, although the issue appears to have affected others around the globe.
Our correspondent observed that WhatsApp channel is also part of the services that’s inaccessible as at the time of filling this report.
There have been numerous instances of Meta and other social media apps having issues and reporting outages.
Earlier this year Facebook users suffered an outage after they were met with log in errors.
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