1000’s of social media customers throughout the nation reported some technical issues when making an attempt to entry Fb and Instagram Wednesday, in accordance with the web site Down Detector.
Down Detector confirmed a spike in experiences of Fb customers shortly after 1 p.m. reporting the platform was down, or working intermittently, with greater than 100,000 customers reporting issues in that hour.
A reside outage map on the positioning additionally confirmed customers had been reporting issues, with highest experiences in New York, Dallas, Boston and Toronto, amongst different cities.
Customers additionally reported issues with Instagram, Down Detector’s website confirmed, with greater than 71,000 experiences of outages.
In response to Down Detector’s warmth map, the best numbers of Instagram outages had been reported in New York and Chicago. #Instagramdown was trending on X all through the afternoon as customers reported encountering messages like, “There’s an issue and the page could not be loaded.”
Instagram posted on X that it was conscious of a technical situation impacting entry for some.
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and are sorry for any inconvenience,” the assertion stated.
Hello, we all know there’s a technical situation impacting some folks’s means to entry Instagram.
We’re working to get issues again to regular as rapidly as potential and are sorry for any inconvenience.#instagramdown
— Instagram (@instagram) December 11, 2024
