Is Facebook Down? What We Know After Outage Reports Spike
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Is Facebook Down? What We Know After Outage Reports Spike
"Meta's status and outages page said Facebook's advertisement manager features were impacted by high disruptions shortly before 5 p.m. EST. Users on Downdetector made 11,312 reports for Facebook, with 61% of them reporting issues with the website and 17% reporting problems logging in."
"Instagram's advertisement creation features were impacted by high disruptions at 5:20 p.m. EST, according to Meta. Outage reports for Facebook sharply declined shortly before 6 p.m. EST, while reports for Instagram issues similarly fell."
"TikTok also ran into technical issues Tuesday, with reports on Downdetector steadily rising from Tuesday morning to the early evening, with outage reports still increasing as of around 6:30 p.m. EST. The U.S. version of TikTok attributed the disruptions to issues with an Oracle data center, which is still investigating the issues as of 6 p.m. EST."
Facebook encountered widespread technical issues Tuesday afternoon, with Meta's status page reporting high disruptions to advertisement manager features around 5 p.m. EST. Downdetector logged over 11,300 user reports, with 61% experiencing website problems and 17% reporting login difficulties. Instagram subsequently experienced a brief spike in problem reports around 5:15 p.m., with its advertisement creation features impacted by disruptions at 5:20 p.m. EST. Both platforms' outage reports declined sharply before 6 p.m. Concurrently, TikTok faced separate technical issues attributed to an Oracle data center malfunction, with outage reports steadily increasing throughout the day. These incidents follow Facebook's major August outage and TikTok's recent week-long disruption from a similar Oracle data center power outage.
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