On the afternoon of September 22nd, the topic "Meituan Down" became trending on social media, with numerous users reporting that restaurant ordering pages were displaying "access error" and "system busy" messages, and some were unable to place orders after entering certain merchant pages due to system anomalies.

When contacted for verification, Meituan's customer service responded that there was indeed a brief system anomaly in the afternoon, but everything has now been fully restored and orders can be placed normally.