More than 100,000 users of Meta’s social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Messenger experienced an outage on Friday. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo
June 12 (UPI) — Facebook and Instagram were back to normal Friday afternoon after a morning outage.
The online outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed that Facebook had 291 reports of outages, and Instagram showed 207 as of 3:35 p.m. EDT.
Instagram’s peak of users reporting outages at 9:30 a.m. was at 10,553, while Facebook peaked at 127,222 at 9:48 a.m.
Meta’s systems dashboard showed all green checks at 2:15 p.m. EDT, noting “no known issues” or “resolved.”
One person on X reported Friday morning:
“FACEBOOK IS DOWN
“INSTAGRAM IS DOWN
“META ADS MANAGER IS DOWN
“QUICK EVERYONE GO OUTSIDE AND TOUCH GRASS”
Earlier Friday, Downdetector showed more than 100,000 people were having problems logging in to Facebook as of 10 a.m. EDT. It also showed more than 9,000 users reporting problems with Instagram and nearly 20,000 with Facebook Messenger.
Some users confirmed in the comments on Downdetector that they were experiencing issues with these platforms, noting that they were “automatically logged out,” “Can’t log in,” or were receiving an “Unknown error.”
