Berlin. Millions of people worldwide reported problems on Facebook and Instagram in the evening. The problem has now been resolved.
Quickly look at a few reels on Instagram or check what your contacts are posting on Facebook? On Tuesday afternoon this was not possible or only possible to a limited extent. The background was a global disruption Meta, the company owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. However, WhatsApp, which also belongs to the group, was not affected.
Users reported online that they were automatically Facebook were logged out and were unable to log in again. Those affected were shown “Session expired”. If you then tried to access your own profile, it was denied because of a supposedly incorrect password.
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Error messages on Facebook and Instagram: “Something went wrong”
At Instagram There was no automatic logout, instead “Feed could not be loaded” was displayed. In some cases, users also encountered the error message “Something went wrong”. Content could not be accessed.
On the “All Disturbances” website, thousands of users reported on Tuesday afternoon that they were having problems with the social networks of meta have. Over 50,000 reports were received within less than an hour. At X, the hashtag “#instagramdown” made it to number one within a very short time.
The Meta Group itself also confirmed that there would be a global one from around 4:30 p.m Disturbance gave. This now seems to have been resolved: both Facebook and Instagram are working again.