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At the peak of the outage, there were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally. The disruptions started at around 10:00 a.m. ET (1500 GMT), with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram…

Brett Johnson / Unsplash If you had difficulty using Facebook and Instagram today, we have some news: you weren’t alone. On Tuesday, March 5, both of the Meta-owned social media websites were experiencing outages, rendering them unusable for many people. This came after AT&T experienced a nationwide outage of its own last month. When did this Facebook/Instagram outage start? Are any other websites down? Is the outage fixed? Here’s everything we know. When did the Facebook and Instagram outage start? Looking at…

Screenshot by Alyson Windsor/ ZDNETWere you logged out of your Facebook, Messenger, Threads, or Instagram account on Tuesday morning? You're not alone.At around 10 a.m., reports began surfacing of users getting completely logged out of their accounts for Meta's services. It quickly became apparent that this was a widespread issue, with seemingly nobody able to use Meta's services.The real-time outage monitoring website DownDetector showed nearly 400,000 people reporting Facebook issues by 10:45 a.m. By noon, all…

The two apps are owned by Meta, an American company offering online social networking services. It was observed that the two apps stopped working around 3:30 p.m. Nigerian time. Facebook logged out users from their accounts, leaving them unable to get back in. On Instagram, some users couldn’t refresh their feeds. Confirming the outage on his verified X handle, Meta communications head Andy Stone, said “We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.” Instagram…

Instagram and Facebook users around the world are currently experiencing a widespread service disruption. Many users are unable to access the platforms and view photos and profile pictures. The outage has affected users in India and several other countries, causing frustration and prompting users to seek alternative social media platforms to express their discontent.Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, has not provided any official communication on the outage. However, it has been confirmed that WhatsApp, another…

Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website. "We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X social media. Meta's status dashboard showed the…

Screenshot by Alyson Windsor/ ZDNETWere you logged out of your Facebook, Messenger, Threads, or Instagram account Tuesday morning? You're not alone.Around 10 a.m. reports began surfacing of users being completely logged out of all Meta accounts. It quickly became apparent this was a widespread issue, with seemingly nobody able to successfully use their Meta account.The real-time problem and outage monitoring website DownDetector showed nearly 400,000 people reporting Facebook issues by 10:45 a.m. By 11:45 a.m.,…

Users of Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms are experiencing login issues in what appears to be a widespread outage.Internet traffic observer Down Detector is reporting vast outages on several Meta platforms on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT). The problems are being reported across the world, suggesting that the outage could be global.London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks said on X that four Meta platforms – Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads – were “currently experiencing outages…

Several Instagram users are reporting an outage, and Downdetector, the website tracking real-time issues and outages, confirms it. Additionally, Meta's Facebook services also seem to be down with several users reporting issues to log-in. Facebook shows a "password that you've entered is incorrect" message when trying to log inAt the time of writing this story, Downdetector had over 29,000 people reporting issues with Instagram, while about 16,000 users reported similar problems with Facebook on the platform. Some of our…

Chesnot/Getty ImagesWere you logged out of your Facebook, Messenger, Threads, or Instagram account Tuesday morning? You're not alone.Around 10 a.m. reports began surfacing of users being completely logged out of all Meta accounts. It quickly became apparent this was a widespread issue, with seemingly nobody able to successfully use their Meta account.The real-time problem and outage monitoring website DownDetector showed nearly 400,000 people reporting Facebook issues by 10:45 a.m.Also: Meta is deleting Oculus…