Instagram and Facebook are unavailable to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide
On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of users worldwide were unable to access Facebook and Instagram, which are owned by Meta Platforms, as reported by the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
According to the website, there were over 300,000 reports of Facebook outages and over 40,000 reports of Instagram outages when the disruptions began at 10:00 am ET.
«People are experiencing difficulties using our services, as we are aware. A representative for Meta, Andy Stone, stated in a post on X social network, «We are working on this right now.
The application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also having problems, according to Meta’s status dashboard. On Downdetector, which analyzes outages by compiling status data from many sources, including users, there were almost 200 complaints of WhatsApp disruptions.
Many users reported that they had been abruptly locked off of the social media sites controlled by Meta, making the outage one of the most popular topics on X, the old Twitter.
