
After almost an hour-long outage, Meta-owned social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, were back online across the world on Tuesday.
Apologising for the “inconvenience”, the Meta spokesperson confirmed the restoration of the social media platforms.

"Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience," the spox stated.
An hour ago users complained that they were unable to view content on Instagram and they kept seeing the “something went wrong” prompt on their screens every time they tried to refresh.

Meanwhile, Meanwhile, login sessions on Facebook and Messenger expired as the users found themselves logged out of the apps. They were "unable to log in" again as a pop-up saying "an unexpected error occurred" appeared while trying to access Facebook.
As per Downdetector, as many as 353,256 Facebook inaccessibility reports were received by 8:20pm.
Meanwhile, cybersecurity and internet governance monitor, NetBlocks also confirmed social media suspension.
"Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads are currently experiencing outages related to login sessions in multiple countries; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering," NetBlocks wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Witnessing inaccessibility, netizens flocked to X, formerly Twitter check if it was down too. However, many saw X owner Elon Musk's response to Meta's outage with a post.
"If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working."
Meanwhile, Meta also responded to the outage of its platforms as tens of thousands of users were affected.

In a statement on X, formerly Twitter, Andy Stone, a spokesperson of Meta, said: “We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.”