Facebook & Instagram suffer massive outage; issue seems to be resolved

Social media platforms owned by Meta, Facebook, Instagram Messenger and Threads, have been down, several users reported on X (formerly Twitter) on late Tuesday evening.

Realtime outage monitoring platform Downdetector also showed that nearly 15,381 people in India reported that Facebook is suffering an outage, while more than 19,200 users have reported a downtime on Instagram as of 8.59 pm.

Andy Stone, Communications Director, Meta, took to X to inform people that the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is working on the said issue.

"We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," he said in a post on X.

Stone, later, brought it to the users' notice that the 'technical issue' has been solved.


According to the website, globally, there were more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook, while there were more than 20,000 reports for Instagram.

Meanwhile, with the users starting to post #instagram down and #facebookdown, the outage has sparked a meme fest on X and the hashtags immediately surfaced on 'Trending Now'.

Elon Musk, who also owns X, took a dig at Meta and said, "If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working."



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