Facebook, Instagram outage seemingly over; Were you impacted?
Moriah Ballard, Digital Reporter
FILE - A view of the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. Meta plans to give European Facebook and Instagram users the option of paying for ad-free versions of the social media services as a way to comply with the continent’s data privacy rules, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) (Richard Drew, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
Hundreds of social media users were left twiddling their thumbs after both social media giants, Facebook and Instagram were reportedly down Tuesday.
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In a digital era where social media is a vital part of our daily lives, the sudden outage of Facebook and Instagram sent shockwaves to many users (including ALL OF US at KPRC 2.)
According to Downdetector, a website that gives a real-time overview of issues and outages across the internet, said that reports about the social media sites started coming in at about 9:08 a.m.
KPRC 2 viewers also called into the station, asking if we’ve been hacked. Rest assured, the issue was not on our end.
It is unclear why the outages occurred to begin with but many compared Tuesday’s issues to the recent AT&T outages which impacted thousands of users.