{"id":22302,"date":"2024-03-05T16:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=22302"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:49:53","slug":"facebook-and-instagram-hit-by-massive-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=22302","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram hit by massive outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Having trouble logging into Facebook and Instagram?  Both Facebook and Instagram seem to be down.  Users are reporting problems logging in to either platform.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to log in to Facebook result in an unrecognized password.<\/p>\n<h2>Over half a million Facebook outage reports<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The DownDetector website shows the outage<\/a> starting at 7:01 AM Pacific\/10:01 EST, quickly increasing to over half a million users reporting problems via the Down Detector website half an hour later.<\/p>\n<h3>Facebook outage reports by users<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">DownDetector screenshot<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unknown issue affects the ability to sign in and affects both Facebook and Instagram on the web and in the app.<\/p>\n<h3>Where the Facebook outage affects<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-510269 size-full b-lazy pcimg small-img\" alt=\"Down detector reports for Facebook\" width=\"384\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/downdetector-1.png\"\/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Down Detector screenshot<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Instagram outage reports<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps reflecting Instagram&#8217;s user base and how likely they are to report the outage, a smaller number of users have reported being unable to use the site.  As of 8:40am PST there were only +92,000 outage reports on the DownDetector website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510279 b-lazy pcimg small-img\" alt=\"Screenshot of DownDetector for Instagram\" width=\"144\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/downdetector-instagram-outage.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>None of them are working.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image by Shutterstock\/FrameStudio<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/facebook-and-instagram-hit-by-massive-outage\/510267\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having trouble logging into Facebook and Instagram? Both Facebook and Instagram seem to be down. Users are reporting problems logging in to either platform. Attempts to log in to Facebook result in an unrecognized password. Over half a million Facebook outage reports The The DownDetector website shows the outage starting at 7:01 AM Pacific\/10:01 EST, quickly increasing to over half a million users reporting problems via the Down Detector website half an hour later. Facebook&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22304,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302\/revisions\/22304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}