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Facebook users were asked to log in but were unable to sign in while Instagram users’ feeds not refreshed.
Users of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms have experienced login issues in what appeared to be a widespread outage.
The social media platforms were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe from around 15:00 GMT on Tuesday but the sites appeared to be returning to normal at around 17:00 GMT.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” he added.
The issue peaked at around 15:30 GMT with about 500,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 70,000 reports for Instagram, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Threads, the rival to Twitter that was launched in 2023, also suffered reports of outages, though WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging service, appeared to be spared.
Facebook suffered a similar outage in October 2021 which was attributed to technical issues.
At the height of the incident on Tuesday, Facebook’s status page, intended for advertisers, said the site was suffering “major disruptions” and that “engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”
Users trying to access Facebook were asked to log in but were unable to sign in using the correct password.
On Instagram, mobile users were seeing their feeds not refreshed.
The outage was among the top trending topics on X, with several users saying they had suddenly been logged out of the Meta-owned social media platforms.
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