Instagram and Facebook experienced a major outage on Tuesday, leaving thousands of users unable to access parts of the platforms as normal. Users reported a range of problems, with Instagram appearing to be particularly affected. New posts failed to load for some users, while profile pages were not displaying correctly.
The disruption did not appear to affect all features of the apps. Some sections of Instagram continued to function normally, although users subsequently encountered error messages when attempting to access certain content.
The problems began at around 17:00 Eastern Time (21:00 GMT), according to outage-tracking website Down Detector. The site recorded a sharp increase in reports from users, with complaints emerging from multiple countries around the world.
At its peak, Down Detector showed roughly 10,000 reports relating to Instagram and more than 3,500 reports linked to Facebook. It was not immediately clear what had caused the disruption.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, had not publicly commented on the outage at the time of writing.
Complaining about the outage, one user wrote on X, ” Nothing will load on my account???? but when i switch over to another one it does load??? is instagram down or did they ban my account?” Another commented, “I was posting a video and I’m like I hope I’m not banned lol so you guys are experiencing the issue too like it loads the feed kind of I think like their servers crashed or something.”
A third user stated, “Wait… did everyone just get abruptly logged out of Facebook, Instagram and threads, or did I literally just get hacked? Tried lreloading pages and it’s giving me a blank white screen and a brutal “something went wrong ” loop. Facebook down it seems.”
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