(NEWSnet/AP) – Did you get logged out of a social media app without expecting it?

Users of Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms experienced login issues Tuesday in what appeared to be an extensive outage.

Internet traffic observer Down Detector reported vast outages on several Meta platforms Tuesday, with Facebook incident reports spiking shortly after 10 a.m. Eastern The problems came from multiple countries, suggesting that the outage was global.

Andy Stone, Meta’s head communications, acknowledged the issues on X, formerly known as Twitter.

At least for some people, the services started coming back online around noon. Meta cited a "technical issue" when giving an update.

 

London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks said on X that four Meta platforms -- Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads -- were “currently experiencing outages related to login sessions in multiple countries.” But the firm, which advocates for internet freedom, said there was no sign of “country-level internet disruptions or filtering,” which are typically imposed by governments.

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