Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger hit with worldwide outage
Meta has apologized for the inconvenience it may have caused to its users following the worldwide outage on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.
On its official page on X, Meta wrote it was aware that users had difficulties accessing their social media applications as it thanked them for their patience.
We know some people were having trouble accessing our apps earlier. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused, and thank you for your patience while our teams worked quickly to resolve!
— Meta Newsroom (@MetaNewsroom) March 5, 2024
Meta communications director Andy Stone, in a post on X, said a "technical issue" led to the incident.
Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram were hit with outage problems late Thursday, March 5.
Issues were reported on tracker DownDetector around 11:21 p.m. after Facebook users got signed out of their accounts randomly, with the social media platform asking users to log in again—and rejecting their passwords even after typing the correct one.
Internet users also weren't able to send messages via Messenger and refresh their own feeds on Instagram for a while.
Users took to X to talk about the outages on the said social media platforms, making the topics “Facebook and Messenger,” “FB & IG,” “Facebook and IG,” Mark Zuckerberg,” “Session Expired,” and “#instagramdown” trend on the social media platform in no time.
Stone issued a statement on X shortly after and assured the public they were working on it.
Meta's digital services went back up early Wednesday, March 6.