Facebook and Instagram comes off as coming back online as of 12:30 p.m.
ET after a nationwide outage.
Roughly 580,000 Facebook users and 92,000 Instagram users experienced issues, according toDown Detector.
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ET on Super Tuesday, as 15 American states hold primaries for the 2024 Presidential Election.
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Meta reported major disruptions across its family of products on Tuesday morning.
Meta’s status page on Tuesday morningScreenshot: Meta
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads all showed spikes in user-reported issues.
Many users reported being logged out of their Facebook accounts, with no ability to sign back in.
Gizmodo reporters also experienced the issue.
Facebook offers voting reminders to its users, whileInstagram has helped users register to vote since 2018.
Other apps, including YouTube and Google also showed spikes in outages on Tuesday morning.
Its unclear if these are related.
Many users took to X, which was largely unaffected, to report their grievances with Metas outage.
Facebook and Instagram were trending topics Tuesday morning with tens of thousands of posts on Elon Musks platform.
Metas status page showed all of its products with an unknown status at 11:35 a.m.
ET, roughly an hour and a half after the outage began.
Last year, there wasanother widespread outage affecting major social media applications, including Facebook and Instagram.
In that case, there was not a clear reason.
However, hundreds of thousands of users were affected and couldnt access their apps for roughly a day.
Gizmodo reached out to Meta for comment and will update the story when the company gets back to us.
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