Facebook Messenger is down across the world as users report issues with the app and website.
Downdetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows issues hit the Meta-owned platform around 10:30am ET.
The outage has hit the US and UK, parts of Europe, Australia, South America and Asia, along with other nations around the globe.
As of 2025, around one billion people use Facebook Messenger, which is about 12 percent of the world’s population.
Facebook Messenger is down across the world as users report issues with the app and website
Facebook has not acknowledged the outage on its social media sites and it is unclear what caused it.
Meta also owns WhatsApp that was also hit with a worldwide outage Friday.
More than 8,200 Americans reported issues to Downdetector.
While the reasosn for the latest outages remain unclear, it comes four years after Meta experienced a seven-hour blackout that cost the company an estimated $100million in lost revenue.
The global outage – which hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger – was caused when a faulty update disconnected its servers from the internet, meaning engineers had to travel to its Santa Clara data center to fix the glitch in-person.
But the repair was delayed, according to one insider who was posting on Reddit, because of ‘lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures’.
The glitch, which prompted calls for a break-up of big tech firms, also brought down messaging services that remote-working staff use to communicate.
So those who knew how to fix the servers couldn’t get that information to the teams inside the data-center, the insider said.
Also disabled were key-fob entry systems at Facebook’s main campus in Menlo, meaning those who had been WFH but rushed back to the office could not get inside while those already inside were unable to access conference rooms and other areas that required a pass.
