- Meta’s Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are experiencing issues worldwide
- The outage appeared to hit the platforms around 10am ET
Meta’s Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are down worldwide, leaving hundreds of thousands of users unable to access the social media platforms.
A source inside Facebook told DailyMail.com that the company’s internal systems were also down, which may have led to Tuesday’s outage.
The issues appeared around 10:20am ET and are impacting all social media sites’ apps and websites.
DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows hundreds of thousands of Americans are having problems with Facebook and tens of thousands reported the same with Instagram – Messenger has a few thousand issue reports.
Along with the US, the outage has reached the UK, parts of Europe, China, Australia and Mexico.
Meta ‘s Facebook , Messenger and Instagram are down worldwide, leaving thousands of users unable to access the social media platforms
DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows more than 200,000 Americans are having problems with Facebook (pictured is the outage map), but over 30,000 reported the same with Instagram – Messenger has a little over 8,000
Facebook’s and Messenger’s glitches surfaced when users noticed they were kicked out of their accounts and unable to log back in – even with the right credentials.
While the News Feed on Instagram is showing an error message.
DownDetector’s outage map shows New York City in the red, along with Boston, Chicago and major cities in California.
The majority of issue reports cite problems with the apps – 72 percent for Facebook, 64 percent for Instagram and Messenger is at 50 percent.
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are all experiencing issues
Facebook’s and Messenger’s glitches surfaced when users noticed they were kicked out of their accounts and unable to log back in – even with the right credentials
Many users have said their two-factor authentication is also not allowing them to log in
Users have flocked to Elon Musk’s X to share their frustrations and inquire if anyone else in the world is experiencing the same problems.
Some people experiencing issues initially thought their accounts may have been hacked, but there are more than 50,000 posts on X about Facebook and Instagram being down.
Elon Musk has responded to Meta’s outage with a post on X: ‘If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.’
Meta’s service dashboard, which lists its services, has continued to show major disruptions for some feature – but then has switched to ‘Unknown’ for all or completely blank.