Facebook, Instagram, Messenger Resume After Outages Reported Worldwide

ACROSS AMERICA — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads appeared to have resumed operations after a mass worldwide outage Tuesday.

After more than 500,000 people reported outages across Meta's platforms, outages dropped to around 37,000 on Facebook and 32,000 on Instagram around 11:45 a.m.

"We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Visitors to the desktop version of the social media site were greeted with the message: "Something went wrong. There's an issue and the page could not be loaded."

Facebook visitors discovered they were logged out of their accounts and could not log back in.

"Major disruptions" were reported with the Meta Admin Center, Facebook login, WhatsApp business API and marketing API, according to MetaStatus.com.

Tens of thousands of people tweeted about the outage — including Elon Musk — as the topic quickly trended on Meta's rival site.

"The social media platforms Instagram and Facebook, both owned by Meta, are currently experiencing an outage," tweeted user @journalistblog. "If you are having trouble logging in, there is no need to panick (sic), you didn't get hacked (I panicked too)."

User @dharreyan tweeted: "Anyone else got freaked and thought they were hacked?"

And Elon Musk tweeted: "If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working."