Facebook, Threads and Instagram are down for some users

Meta's social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are experiencing outages for many users across the globe Tuesday morning.

Facebook and Threads appear to be particularly affected. Neither app was loading as of 10 a.m. ET, when reports of the outage began surfacing on DownDetector.com. Some Instagram feeds aren't refreshing for users, while others can still access the app. Many Facebook users are unable to log in.

“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote in a post on the social media site X Tuesday.

The outages coincide with Super Tuesday presidential primaries, where 16 states and one territory will hold their presidential nominations. These disruptions could pose challenges for presidential campaigns, which heavily rely on platforms like Facebook and Instagram to reach voters.

The hashtags “#instagramdown” and “#facebookoutage” were trending on X Tuesday morning. Shares of Meta were down more than 1%.

Moreover, Meta is facing “major disruptions” across its Meta Admin Center, Facebook login, WhatsApp Business API, and Marketing API, according to a company website that tracks the status of its business products.

This service disruption follows a major outage in 2021, when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for more than six hours. At the time, Facebook, now Meta, attributed the outage to “configuration changes on backbone routers.”

It is unclear when Tuesday’s outages will be resolved.