Meta’s social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, have resumed operation after experiencing an outage lasting approximately two hours on Tuesday morning.
At 10 a.m. ET, reports of an outage affecting Facebook and Threads began surfacing on DownDetector.com. Users experienced difficulties loading both apps, with Instagram feeds failing to refresh for some and others unable to log into Facebook. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone issued a statement apologizing for the inconvenience and confirming the technical issue’s resolution.
The outage coincided with the Super Tuesday presidential primaries in the U.S., posing challenges for campaigns reliant on Facebook and Instagram for voter outreach. “#instagramdown” and “#facebookoutage” trended on social media, and Meta’s stock saw a more than 1% decline.
Furthermore, Meta encountered “major disruptions” across various services, including Meta Admin Center, Facebook, Instagram Shops, and WhatsApp Business API, according to a company status page. Google’s YouTube reported loading issues and errors with YouTube Shorts, while Gmail users experienced email delivery delays, although it remains unclear if these issues were related to Meta’s outages.
This incident follows a significant 2021 outage where Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were inaccessible for over six hours due to “configuration changes on backbone routers,” as stated by Meta, then known as Facebook.
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