Reports of outages soared starting around 12:30 p.m. EST, with more than 100,000 Facebook users reporting their problems on DownDetector by around 1:10 p.m. EST.
Tens of thousands of Instagram users also reported problems, while there was a similar spike for WhatsApp and Threads.
Just before 5:30 p.m., the number of reported outages on Facebook had dropped to just over 1200 Instagram reports fell to about 1,900 from a peak of more than 68,000 and reports of issues on WhatsApp.
Upon trying to access Facebook, some users were met with an error message reading “We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”