Overview
- User reports on Downdetector surged to roughly 10,000–11,000 beginning around 4:15–5 p.m. ET as logins and pages failed worldwide.
- Many attempting to sign in saw an “Account Temporarily Unavailable” message, with the desktop website more affected than the mobile app.
- Meta’s business-status dashboard showed high disruptions for Facebook Ads Manager, and impacts extended to Instagram ad creation and the WhatsApp Business API.
- Independent monitoring by NetBlocks confirmed the incident was international and not related to country-level internet filtering.
- Outage reports declined sharply within about an hour and access largely returned, but Meta has not offered a detailed explanation.