Yesterday, Facebook and Instagram experienced an outage. This marks the initial occurrence this year where Meta-owned platforms encountered a significant period of unavailability.
The services of Meta-owned platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Thread were reinstated following a worldwide disruption on Tuesday evening at approximately 9 pm. According to DownDetector, a platform that monitors live cases of disruptions, Facebook experienced an outage at approximately 8:57 pm, with a total of 15,381 reports. Instagram also encountered the disruption around the same time, with a total of 32,537 reports as indicated by the website.