Social media behemoth Meta has been hit by a global outage, leaving users unable to access their accounts. Thousands of users have reported issues with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp this morning.

Reports began flowing in at around 4:30am AEDT on Thursday, according to online disruptions website Downdetector. It has received more than 100,000 complaints about the platform.

Meta confirmed the outage on X, along with updating its “status and outages of Meta business products” page to confirm it was experiencing issues.

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“We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps,” Meta wrote on X.

“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience.”

Many users pointed out the irony of Meta posting about the outage on competitor platform X.

“Do you find the irony in posting on your competitors app that your apps aren't working?” one wrote.

"It’s almost poetic that you’re using the competitor’s app to update everyone on yours being down," another added.

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