Overview
- Users across the US, UK, Spain and parts of Europe reported problems on Wednesday, July 22, with Downdetector showing spikes around 7:50 a.m. ET and again shortly before 1 p.m. BST.
- The disruption affected multiple Meta products, including Facebook on web and mobile, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, with common symptoms of login failures, feeds and Reels not loading, and direct messages not delivering.
- Downdetector aggregated thousands of voluntary reports, with one combined count around 5,000 complaints and roughly 4,400 affecting Facebook and 600 affecting Instagram as of about 1 p.m. BST.
- Meta’s official status page reported no known issues and the company had not issued a substantive public explanation at the time of reporting, leaving the outage unconfirmed by the firm.
- This is the second similar interruption since Sunday, prompting users to move to rival platforms to report problems and raising fresh questions about reliability for people and businesses that depend on Meta’s interconnected apps.