Having trouble logging into Facebook and Instagram? It appears that both Facebook and Instagram have gone down. Users are reporting issues logging into either platforms.
Attempts to log into Facebook results in an unrecognized password.
Official Status Report
The first acknowledgement of a login issue was posted by Meta at 7:51 AM:
“Major disruptions: Platform Status
Mar 5 2024 7:17 AM PST
We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”
The status was upgraded two hours later at 9:07 AM to recovery in progress:
“Recovering from disruptions: Platform Status
Mar 5 2024 9:07 AM PST
We are recovering from an earlier outage impacting Facebook Login, and services are in the process of being restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.”
Over Half A Million Reports Of Facebook Outages
The DownDetector website shows the outage beginning about 7:01 AM Pacific/10:01 EST, rapidly escalating to over half a million users reporting issues through the Down Detector website by a half an hour later.
Facebook Outage Reports By Users
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The unknown problem is affecting the ability to login and it affects both Facebook and Instagram on the web and the app.
Where Facebook Outage Affects
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Instagram Outage Reports
Perhaps reflecting the user base of Instagram and the likelihood of them reporting the outage, a smaller amount of users have reported the inability to use the site. By 8:40 AM PST there were only +92,000 reports of an outage at the DownDetector website.
Instagram App Outage
The statistics related to the Instagram users reporting an outage shows that most users who reported an outage reflects how they use Instagram. The clear majority of users are reporting an outage in the Instagram App.
Instagram App Affected
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The reporting for Facebook shows that 75% of reports were about problems logging in, whereas that is only 12% of reports for Instagram.
Meta Ads Manager Disruptions
The Ads Manager status dashboard shows there are disruptions affecting the ability to create new ads, ads delivery and ads reporting
Screenshot Meta Ads Status Page
None of them are functioning.
This is a developing story.
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