Image Credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images When a technology platform goes down, pandemonium occurs, and users nowadays tend to visit Downdetector to report an outage with a social media, payment or AI tool. With the most recent outage affecting Venmo, consumers across the United States have expressed frustration when the app failed to send or receive payments on August 1. Below, we've rounded up the major tech platforms that have experienced outages in 2025. Meta One of the most recent outages that affected a Meta platform was in July when Instagram briefly went down for countless users.