It wasn’t just you: Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and Threads were all having issues Tuesday morning. The popular social media services all appeared to be suffering from an outage, with monitoring service Downdetector showing spikes for Facebook and Instagram.
Meta-owned WhatsApp seemed to be OK, however. As of 12:30 p.m. ET all three impacted services seemed to have returned.
Threads was displaying error messages on Tuesday.
According to Downdetector, a website where users can self-report issues with websites and services, showing a surge in reports around 7:30 a.m. PT (10:30 a.m. ET). The site saw nearly 540,000 reports about Facebook’s issues and over 85,000 reports over problems accessing Instagram.
In a post on X, Andy Stone, a Meta communications director, confirmed what users were experiencing. Stone later tweeted to note that the outage was caused by a “technical issue.”
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. https://t.co/ybyyAZNAMn
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) March 5, 2024
Meta’s outage comes nearly two weeks after AT&T suffered widespread issues that left users of the phone carrier without service for hours. As an apology, AT&T said it would give $5 bill credits to each impacted account.
