<p>Meta's Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.</p><p>There were more than 105,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 70,000 with Instagram, in an outage that started around 12:50 p.m. ET.</p><p>WhatsApp, Meta's messaging application, was also down for more than 12,000 users, according to Downdetector.com.</p><p>Meta shared an update on X, saying it is aware of the issue and is working to 'get things back to normal as quickly as possible'.</p>.Meta seeks nuclear power developers for reactors to start in early 2030s.<p>Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on rival platform X that they were encountering an error that said "something went wrong" and that Meta was working to get it fixed.</p><p>Hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users were impacted globally for more than two hours early this year by an outage that was caused by a technical issue.</p><p>The platforms faced another outage in October, when services were largely restored within an hour.</p>
<p>Meta's Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.</p><p>There were more than 105,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 70,000 with Instagram, in an outage that started around 12:50 p.m. ET.</p><p>WhatsApp, Meta's messaging application, was also down for more than 12,000 users, according to Downdetector.com.</p><p>Meta shared an update on X, saying it is aware of the issue and is working to 'get things back to normal as quickly as possible'.</p>.Meta seeks nuclear power developers for reactors to start in early 2030s.<p>Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on rival platform X that they were encountering an error that said "something went wrong" and that Meta was working to get it fixed.</p><p>Hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users were impacted globally for more than two hours early this year by an outage that was caused by a technical issue.</p><p>The platforms faced another outage in October, when services were largely restored within an hour.</p>