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Facebook, Instagram Users Hit By Widespread Outages
21 Sep
Summary
- Thousands of US users reported outages on Facebook and Instagram.
- Over 17,000 reports logged for Facebook, 5,000 for Instagram.
- Outages occurred on Sunday evening, affecting social media access.
Meta's flagship social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced widespread outages on Sunday evening. Thousands of users in the United States reported being unable to access the services. According to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com, the number of reported issues for Facebook surpassed 17,000. Instagram also saw a significant number of user complaints, with over 5,000 outage reports logged.
These disruptions impacted users' ability to connect and share content across the popular platforms. Downdetector compiles these reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted status updates, to monitor the health of online services. The exact cause of the simultaneous outages remains under investigation as the situation developed on Sunday.
