UPDATED with resolution ofoutage.InstagramandFacebookreturned to full operation mid-day Tuesday following a 2-hour outage.
Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services, he wrote.
Users reported being kicked out of Facebook and unable to log back in.
Meta
Visitors to Instagram were greeted by an oops message reading, Something went wrong.
Theres an issue and the page could not be loaded.
The situation remained unresolved an hour later.
Major social media figures like Taylor Swift had been using Instagram in recent days to urge followers to vote.
Meta Platforms owns Facebook and Instagram as well as WhatsApp, which also was reported to be experiencing trouble.
Threads and Facebook Messenger were also flashing red on the DownDetector dashboard.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone posted on X, Were aware people are having trouble accessing our services.
We are working on this now.
In 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for more than six hours.
Their parent company blamed configuration changes on backbone routers.
