• Social media apps by Meta appear to be back online in the United States.
• The social networking apps from Meta Platforms Inc experienced a brief outage on Wednesday.
• Downdetector keeps track of outages for big tech platforms.

The social media apps from Meta Platforms Inc, which experienced a brief outage on Wednesday in the United States, appeared to be operational again.

As of 2352 GMT, more than 17,000 user reports have indicated problems with Instagram in the United States at the height of the outage. More than 13,000 instances involving the Facebook app were reported, and around the same time, outage reports for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger briefly increased.

By combining status information from many sources, including user-submitted problems on its platform, Downdetector keeps track of outages.

Big Tech platform outages are prevalent; for example, Microsoft Corp. and Google, both of which are owned by Alphabet Inc., have had service interruptions.

Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure, as well as applications like Teams and Outlook, were all affected by a networking outage earlier on Wednesday, which affected millions of customers worldwide.

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