Facebook, Instagram Down For Thousands Of Users Across The World

Users were unable to load apps, deliver messages and refresh their search feeds on Facebook and Instagram.

Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger, the platforms managed by Meta, have reported a global outage, outage tracking websites down detector said. 

Users were unable to load apps, deliver messages and refresh their search feeds on Facebook and Instagram. There were more than 300,000 reports of outages on Facebook, while there were more than 20,000 reports on Instagram, according to the website. Several users were logged out of their Facebook accounts and because of the outage, they are not able to log back in. 

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users.

Meta has not responded to the global outage and it's unclear how much time will the servers take to resume functions.