Facebook, Instagram and YouTube down worldwide as social media giants face global outage
Meta-owned Facebook, Messenger and Instagram experienced worldwide outages Tuesday, with more than half a million users unable to access the social media apps.
The outages also appeared to be affecting other major social media apps, including TikTok, Snapchat and Google’s YouTube video platform.
The outages — reported across Europe and Asia as well as the US — began around 10:20 a.m. ET and still hadn’t been resolved nearly an hour later.
“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote on X.
X users responded to Stone with predictable snark. “Good thing X works to let us know,” wrote one X user.
Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter in late 2022 for $44 billion and then renamed it X, posted a meme mocking his social media rival.
The meme depicts characters from the 2014 animated film “Penguins of Madagascar.” One of the characters, who represents X, is seen being saluted by three others who represent Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
According to Downdetector, there were more than 566,700 reports of Facebook outages.
Of those, 75% of the reported problems had to do with the login.
The site also reported more than 85,000 users encountered problems with Instagram.
Frustrated social media users took to the X platform, where the hashtag #facebookdown was trending.
“Your FB & IG accounts have NOT been hacked, but many users have been reporting that they appears to have been logged out of their accounts and can not currently log back into them,” X user Brian Krassenstein posted.
Krassenstein included a video clip showing him unsuccessfully trying to log in to Facebook.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
