Meta-owned platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Threads are currently facing technical issues that will prevent many users from accessing them on Tuesday. The outage affected the functionality of these social media platforms.
DownDetector is an outage tracking website that has logged over 3,000,000 Facebook outages and over 47,000 Instagram outage reports globally. Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, says it is working to resolve the issue.
“We recognize that people are experiencing issues accessing our services. We are currently working to resolve the issue,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said in a post on X social media.
Facebook Login problems and feed refresh issues
Users have reported various issues such as logging out of their Facebook account and then not being able to log in. Likewise, Instagram users struggled to update their feeds as some people’s stories and comments failed to load. Threads, an application developed by Meta, also shuts down completely with an error message on startup.
Facebook Rapid surge in reports
DownDetector, a website that tracks internet service outages, saw a spike in reports after problems occurred across all three platforms. Despite widespread user complaints, Meta has yet to officially acknowledge the issue.
Instagram, Facebook, Meta, Messenger not working
Users began experiencing issues around 8:56 p.m., reporting difficulty loading content into their feeds. Reporting issues with the application, login, and uploading content. This is a development story. Please check back for updates.
WhatsApp, which is also part of Meta, has not reported any outages. Although the newly launched X-rival Threads also failed. Minutes after the outage, people turned to X and Elon Musk, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg as #Instagramdown trended on the social media platform, with users sharing memes about server issues around the world.
Last July, all meta platforms, including WhatsApp, reported a major outage. Service resumed later in the day. July’s outages came just weeks after similar problems were reported in June.