Facebook and Instagram users are reporting that meta services are unavailable

According to Down Detector, Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram went offline around 10 a.m. on Tuesday website that keeps track of user reports of telecommunications and internet disruptions.

More than 3,200 users reported having problems with Facebook shortly after 10 a.m., compared to a baseline of 17 such reports on an average day. By 10:20 am there were more than 350,000 reports of problems with the website.

More than 53,000 people problems reported with Instagram around 10:30 am and more than 8,800 users reported issues with Facebook Messenger around that time, according to Down Detector.

Meta, the parent company of those sites, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Some users flowed to X to see if others were also experiencing problems with those sites. An user told people not to panic if they had trouble logging in.

This is a development story.