PETALING JAYA: Facebook and Instagram were down worldwide for about two hours last night, with social media users taking to X, formerly Twitter, to complain about login problems.
Checks by FMT found that the feed on Facebook and Instagram could not be refreshed, while some users were logged out of Facebook and could not get back in.
The website Downdetector logged a spike in complaints about the two sites from about 11pm last night to about 1.30am
At about 2am this morning, Instagram posted on X to say: “Hiiiii, we know that people had difficulty accessing IG earlier today. We resolved the issue and are back.”
Similarly, Facebook said at 2.10am: “And we’re back. So sorry for those who were unable to access Facebook earlier today.”
No reason was given for the breakdown in services.
A chart at Downdetector.com showing a spike in complaints about failure to access Facebook last night.
Last night, Malaysians complained on X they feared having been hacked.
One netizen said she was worried that her Facebook and Instagram accounts were compromised after she failed to log in many times.
“When I checked, it appears that the two apps are down and impacting everyone else. These days, technology is so vulnerable and unpredictable,” @sf_artography said on X.
Another netizen, @ainaasmira1, said she was shocked to find herself logged out of Facebook and Instagram, thinking she was hacked after having trouble logging in again.
“So it seems like the system is down,” she said in an X post.
When logged in, a message “something went wrong. Stories couldn’t load. Please try again,” appeared on the story section of the Facebook mobile app.
Instagram and Facebook are owned by Meta Platforms Inc.
