Meta’s social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook and Threads,
are back online after the platforms
were down for about two hours on
Tuesday morning.
Facebook and Threads seemed
to be particularly impacted. Neither app was loading as of 10 a.m.
ET, when reports of the outage
started to surface on DownDetector.com. Instagram feeds weren’t
refreshing for some users, while
others could still access the app.
Many Facebook users were unable to log in.
“Earlier today, a technical issue
caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We
resolved the issue as quickly as
possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any
inconvenience,” Meta spokesperson, Andy Stone, wrote in a post
on the social media site X Tuesday.
The outages occurred on the
same day as the Super Tuesday
presidential primaries in the U.S.,
when 16 states and one territory
head to the polls. The disruptions
presented a problem for the presidential campaigns, which rely
heavily on platforms like Facebook and Instagram to reach
voters.
The hashtags ”#instagramdown” and ”#facebookoutage”
were trending on X Tuesday
morning. Shares of Meta were
down more than 1%.
Additionally, Meta experienced
“major disruptions” across its
Meta Admin Center, Facebook and
Instagram Shops and WhatsApp
Business API, according to a company website that tracks the status
of its business products. Its Ads
Manager, Meta Business Suite,
Facebook Login, Graph API and
Marketing API were all recovering
from disruptions as of 12 p.m. ET.
Google’s YouTube also confirmed some of its users experienced problems on Tuesday, like
loading issues, a blank homepage,
and errors while attempting to
play YouTube Shorts. YouTube
directed users to follow its “Help
Community” post for more details,
according to a post on X.
Some users also had trouble
with Google’s Gmail, according
to a company status dashboard.
Users experienced delays with
email delivery, the dashboard said.
It’s unclear if these problems were
related to the outages at Meta.
Meta’s service disruptions
followed a major outage in 2021,
when Facebook, Instagram and
WhatsApp were down for more
than six hours. At the time, Facebook, now Meta, said the outage
was caused by “configuration
changes on backbone routers.
Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Back After Two-Hour Long Global Outage
