- By Yetunde Yekini-Oropo
There are indications that social media platforms Facebook and Instagram are all currently down.
Users noticed at about 4:45 pm on Tuesday that they had been logged out of their accounts.
While many have sought to re-login, others have exercised caution to understand exactly what the development is all about.
At the time of filing this report, there was no statement yet from Meta, the parent company.
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They were logged out of both Facebook and Instagram. Some were unable to refresh Instagram pages. Many users were also asked to change passwords. Soon after, YouTube users also started facing a similar issue.
Outage tracking website Downdetector.com also revealed that Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram were down for tens of thousands of users on Tuesday.
There were more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook, while there were more than 20,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users.
Hundreds of people took to microblogging site X (fomerly Twitter) reporting about Facebook and Instagram ouatge.