Facebook, Instagram Hit by Outage: Thousands of Users Reported Problems Including Getting Logged Out
UPDATED: Meta’s family of apps including Facebook and Instagram experienced widespread technical problems lasting more than two hours Tuesday, with hundreds of thousands of users logging errors in accessing the social media services. Users reported problems including being logged out of Facebook — and when they attempted to log back in, were shown an error message such as, “ Something went wrong. Please try again .” Down detector had received more than 500,000 error reports. About 76% of the problems reported by Facebook users are related to trouble logging in. In addition, Instagram users reported that their feed was not refreshing and that they were unable to post anything to the platform. The outage also extended to Meta’s Messaging platform and Threads; the company’s Twitter -like app launched last year. More than 25,000 Instagram outages were also reported via the website, which collates status reports from several sources, including users. Problems on Facebook lef...