BREAKING: Facebook and Instagram are down

Date:
Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:46:01 +0000

Description:
Facebook and Instagram appear to be suffering an outage, with people being logged out of their accounts and unable to log back in.

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Facebook and Instagram both appear to be down in certain regions, with Downdetector indicating outages, as well as our own difficulties in logging into the social media apps owned by Meta.

After checking the Facebook app on my iPhone 15 Pro Max , I was informed the session had expired and I needed to log in again. After putting in the password, Facebook appeared to do a virtual hiccup and then tell me there was something wrong.

As a result, this also means Facebook Messenger is also down and boots users back to a login screen where their credentials don't appear to be accepted.

However, I can stil login to Instagram, while some of my colleagues report that they can't. So it looks like the outage is somewhat sporadic.

This story is developing so read on.

So when I try to login to Facebook or Facebook Messenger I get a pop up
saying an "unexpected error occurred" and no joy in getting around it.

Taking a look at Downdetector and Facebook has just had a huge outage spike. (Image credit: Ookla )

Apparently WhatsApp users are reporting outages too, but my WhatsApp app is working fine. This is odd. (Image credit: Ookia)

it's hard to tell, but it would appear that these outages are partially region-specific. WhatsApp and Instagram are fine for me, but Facebook isn't letting me log in.

However, others are saying they can't get into Instagram and Downdetector is flagging WhatsApp outages.

Ah! News Editor Mark Wilson has just pointed out that WhatsApp has only 300
or so outage reports, while Facebook's outage reports are at 250,000.

So it looks like Meta's main social network is bearing the brunt of the outage.

As one might expect X, the social media site formerly known as Facebook, is awash with people flagging Facebook outages. Has Facebook and Messenger
logged you out and then rejects your password?Don't panic, you're not alone, LOADS of people seem to be experiencing this right now.I guess we just gotta wait and see what the heck this is pic.twitter.com/YiQz17AeXR March 5, 2024 See more "Has Facebook" Yes it has pic.twitter.com/PsipryfCrG March 5, 2024 See more



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