The social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, which belong to Meta, are returning to normality after an outage that lasted almost an hour. The three platforms stopped working for many users starting around 10 a.m. ET. Andy Stone, Head Communications at Meta, has confirmed that the issue has been resolved on X, formerly Twitter. “Today a technical issue resulted in people having difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone affected and apologize for any inconvenience,” he wrote.

Stone is also among company executives who have confirmed that Facebook, Instagram and Threads will be unavailable. “We recognize that people are having issues accessing our services. We are currently working on it,” he wrote on X.

Meta confirmed the issue on its status page with a message time-stamped at 10:17 a.m. ET that read: “We are aware of an issue affecting Facebook login. Our engineering teams are actively working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” At 12:07 p.m. ET, the status page said: “We are recovering from a previous outage that impacted Facebook Login and services are currently being restored. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.”

What problem did Facebook, Instagram and Threads users face?
While Facebook was logging users out of their accounts, Instagram users were unable to update their feeds and Threads displayed a message saying “Sorry, something went wrong.” Try it again.”

In 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for hours. The company said the outage was due to incorrect changes to routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.

Facebook is the world's largest social media platform with three billion active monthly users.

According to the latest data, Instagram has about 1.35 billion users.