If you woke up today hoping to jump on Facebook or Instagram to catch up on your news feed, you noticed one thing. Neither platform was working! According to people.com, Meta had this to say about the outage.
“We’re sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again,” read a message for some on Instagram.
Monitoring service Downdetector reported that error reports surfaced just after 10:30 a.m. EST. Downdetector had received more than 500,000 error reports as of 11 a.m.
“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on the social media site X (previously known as Twitter). “We are working on this now.”
Facebook previously experienced a massive worldwide outage in 2021, which lasted for six hours. At the time, the company said the outage was caused by “configuration changes on backbone routers
Facebook & Instagram are down. pic.twitter.com/gm7xiN0MNs
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 5, 2024
