Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user's region.

According to DownDetector, the outage occurred at approximately 12:40 PM ET, with many users unable to access the services through the websites and apps or send messages through WhatsApp.

When users attempted to access Facebook, they were greeted with errors stating, "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."