Some Facebook and Instagram users reported international outages Sunday, leaving them unable to access their feeds, according to two internet watchdogs and a CNN check of the platforms.<\/p>\n
More than 23,000 users reported problems with Facebook in the United States alone between 3:44 and 5:02 am ET Sunday (7:44-9:02pm NZ), at which point the number of reports drops dramatically, said DownDetector, which monitors internet services.<\/p>\n
And at least 18,000 reports flagged problems with Instagram in the US during the same timeframe, according to DownDetector’s data.<\/p>\n
Internet watchdog NetBlocks, which monitors worldwide internet access, noted that Facebook and Instagram users were experiencing international outages, unrelated to any country-level internet disruption.<\/p>\n
CNN has contacted Meta, the parent company of the two social media platforms, for comment.<\/p>\n
During the outage, affected Facebook users received an error message saying their account was “currently unavailable due to a site issue,” and were asked to try logging in again “in a few minutes.”<\/p>\n
WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, appeared not to experience problems during the outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Facebook and Instagram users reported international outages Sunday, leaving them unable to access their feeds, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-533886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}