Facebook, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

Meta’s Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are suffering from a global outage, leaving thousands of users unable to access the social media platforms.

According to details, the issues appeared around 19:45am PST and are impacting both social media sites’ apps and website. The outage will cause your password to be rejected, and Facebook will promptly log out its users.

An error message indicating an expired login will surface, and login attempts following the outage will be met with rejected credentials.

Down Detector has accumulated over 300,000 reports since initial reporting, and Twitter and other platforms are inundated with similar outage reports.

Meanwhile, users were also unable to view the content on the picture-sharing platform – Instagram – as the message “Something went wrong” appeared every time they tried to access the site.

Meta’s status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.

“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.

The social media giant as about 3.19 billion daily active users across its family of apps, which also include WhatsApp and Threads.

Though the outage for WhatsApp and Threads was much smaller, with under 200 incident reports each on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.

The outage was among the top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with the platform’s owner Elon Musk taking a shot at Meta with a post that said: “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working”.

X itself has faced several disruptions to its service after Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the social media platform in October 2022, with an outage in December causing issues for more than 77,000 users in countries from the U.S. to France.