Meta says Facebook and Instagram service has been restored after the outage

Meta said it had resolved a technical issue on its platforms, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, after what appeared to be an hours-long outage on Tuesday.

After user reports of a service outage that lasted about two hours, Meta said it fixed the problem that caused the sites to crash. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone affected, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said. Written on X.

The issue appeared to have been resolved for many users Tuesday afternoon, but some were still reporting a cross-platform issue.

Around 10 a.m. Tuesday, more than 25,000 users in the United States They reported that they are having problems with FacebookAccording to the Down Detector website, A A website that tracks user reports of telecom and internet outages, compared to a baseline of 17 such reports on average per day. By approximately 10:20 a.m., that number had reached more than 538,000 reports of problems with the site. around 76% of complaints were related to logging into the website; 17 percent of the issues reported were with the app and 8 percent with the website.

more than 91,000 people Issues have been reported with Instagram At approximately 10:30 a.m., 62 percent of reported issues were app-related, while 27 percent of reports were feed-related. more than 13,600 users Issues have been reported with Facebook Messenger Around that time, according to Down Detector, 61 percent of those users reported problems logging in while 24 percent had problems with the app and 14 percent with sending messages.

Users also reported Problems with themes And WhatsAppwhich is also owned by Meta.

The outages appear to have affected users globally, with issues reported in United kingdom, Germany, Argentina, Japan And in other places.

The company reported last month that Meta hosts more than 3.98 billion users across its apps each month.

Some users Flocked to X To see if others are also having trouble with those sites. 1 user Tell people not to panic If they are having trouble logging in. Many users on X wondered if they had been hacked, and tried to change their passwords several times to access their accounts to no avail.

The outage comes ahead of a Wednesday deadline for Meta and other tech giants, including Apple and Google, to comply with the Digital Markets Act, a new European Union law aimed at increasing competition in the digital economy. The law requires companies to fix how some of their products work so that smaller competitors can reach their users.

Elon Musk, the billionaire who bought Twitter for $44 billion, seemed to welcome users to his platform. Post a screenshot on X Mr. Stone's statement is alongside an image of three penguins from the movie “Madagascar,” each bearing Meta's trademarks. The penguins saluted another X-branded penguin.

“If you are reading this post, it is because our servers are up and running,” Mr Musk said. He wrote in another post.