Thousands of users appeared to be affected by a widespread outage impacting Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Messenger on Friday, with reports flooding social media and outage-tracking site Downdetector.
Downdetector showed a sharp spike in Instagram reports, rising from a baseline of 25 complaints to several thousand as users reported being logged out, unable to load the app or unable to access their accounts.
Meta confirmed the outage, with the company’s communications veep Andy Stone writing on X: “We’re aware people are currently having trouble accessing our services. We’re working on it.”
Frustrated users quickly took to Downdetector’s comment section to vent. One user wrote that they were met with a “Blank page,” while another said they were “logged out of my account out of nowhere” and unable to sign back in.
Thousands of users appeared to be affected by a widespread outage impacting Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Messenger on Friday. AFP via Getty Images
The outage appeared to stretch beyond Instagram. On X, users reported being kicked out of Facebook and Messenger, only to be greeted by error messages when attempting to log back in.
“Anybody else just been logged out of Facebook messenger and can’t log back in? Unknown error,” one user posted, a complaint echoed by numerous others.
Another wrote: “Facebook down??? Got logged out and says query error.”
Some users said both Facebook and Messenger signed them out, while others questioned whether the disruption was global. One post claimed that “Facebook is down globally.”
The Post has sought comment from Meta.
