Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads are limping back to normalcy after almost over an hour long outage. The three platforms stopped working for many users starting around 10AM ET. Andy Stone, Meta’s head communications has confirmed that the issue has been fixed on on X, formerly Twitter. “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,” he wrote.
Stone is also among the company executives who confirmed that Facebook, Instagram and Threads are down. “We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,” he wrote on X.
Meta acknowledged the issue on its status page with a message timestamped 10:17AM ET, reading, “We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” At 12:07PM ET, the status page said, “We are recovering from an earlier outage impacting Facebook Login, and services are in the process of being restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.”
What was the issue faced by the users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
While Facebook logged users out of their accounts, Instagram users couldn’t refresh their feeds and Threads displayed a message saying, “Sorry, something went wrong. Try again.”
In 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for hours, an outage the company said was a result of faulty changes on routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.
Facebook is the world’s largest social media platform, with three billion active monthly users.
Instagram has about 1.35 billion users, according to the latest data.