Facebook, Instagram users briefly report suffering some outages

Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram briefly experienced outages on Sunday, according to reports from real-time outage monitor Downdetector.

According to http://Downdetector.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, Pakistani users began reporting problems with Facebook at around 12:30pm.

Outage reports peaked at 196 at 1:40pm and the issue was resolved at around 2:40pm.

Instagram, meanwhile, also saw a steep rise in outage reports at around 12:30pm, with reports peaking at 204 at around 1:29pm.

There were 4,808 reports filed by Facebook users in the United States as of 12:45pm and another 2,829 reports were filed by Instagram users who faced issues with the app as of 1:18pm.

Checks by Reuters also found that access to Facebook and Instagram was intermittent in Singapore.

Last month, Meta’s social networks were reported to be https://www.dawn.com/news/2007342">down for thousands of users.

There were more than 62,000 reports of issues with Facebook and more than 8,000 reports of issues with Instagram

In March 2024, Meta suffered a highly unusual https://www.dawn.com/news/1819512">outage of all its social media platforms, with users of Face­book, Instagram and Threads being locked out of their accounts for several hours.

Additional input from Reuters