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AppWizard

December 13, 2024

Is there an issue with Instagram, Facebook right now? Meta working to resolve app outages

The European Union fined Meta over 0 million for violating antitrust regulations by favoring Facebook Marketplace through abusive practices. On December 11, Meta's applications, including Facebook and Instagram, faced significant outages, with over 100,000 disruption reports for Facebook peaking at 1:16 p.m. EST. Meta acknowledged the issue and worked to resolve it, with reports declining to 22,360 by 2:30 p.m. EST. Instagram experienced 64,728 outage reports at its peak, which decreased to 24,143 later. WhatsApp also had over 10,000 outage reports, while the Threads app reported only 914 incidents at its peak.

AppWizard

April 16, 2024

Threads to get a new messaging feature soon

Meta's Threads app is expanding to include messaging capabilities, allowing users to send messages from Threads to Instagram. This feature will not have its own inbox but will integrate with Instagram's existing messaging system. Adam Mosseri clarified that Threads will not have a separate inbox and will be integrated with Instagram's inbox. This addition is part of Meta's efforts to improve its services, along with introducing a bookmarking feature and testing cross-posting content between Threads and Facebook.