Meta-owned platforms — Instagram and Facebook are experiencing widespread outage. The ongoing outage appears to have affected users from across the globe, including india. Several users have posted about facing problems with these two social media platforms on the social media platform — X.
Along with this, the ongoing outage has also been recorded by the outage tracking website — Downdetector.
Instagram, Facebook down: Outage details
As per the report by Downdetector, the outage on Instagram and Facebook started on both the platforms at around 7:32pm and peaked at 9:00pm. The outage report indicates that around three and half lakh users reported issues with Instagram, while approximately 3,53,000 users encountered problems accessing Facebook.
Problems users are experiencing
According to the report, around 70% of users are facing issues with the Instagram app, while 27% have reported issues with the feed and 10% are facing issues with the login. On the other hand, around 75% Facebook users have reported issues while loggin in into their Facebook account and 27% with the app and 10% with the website.
As mentioned, users have also reported about the ongoing outage with Instagram and Facebook on X.
Reason behind the outage
For now, there’s no information available about the ongain outage or what’s the reason behind it. Meta hasn’t officially acknowledged the outage as of now.