Social Media status today
No problems detected across 28 services right now. No user reports in the last hour.
- with issues now
- 0
- reports, last hour
- 0
- incidents, 30 days
- 0
- with official status page
- 6
All Social Media services
InstagramSocial networksUp0None in 30 days0 reports/hLast incident: None in 30 daysLast incident: official major or partial outages only. Website: daily reachability of the homepage from our checks.
Recent incidents
No major or partial outages on official status pages in the last 30 days. 6 of 28 services here publish an official status page.
Biggest Social Media outages
Major incidents since 2023, from news reports and official postmortems
Instagram and Facebook outage
about 2 hours · Global
Outage during AWS failure
more than 6 hours · Global
Global Saturday outage of website and app
about 4.5 hours · Global
US shutdown as ban law took effect
about 14 hours · US
Outage across Meta apps
about 5 hours · Global
Pi Day outage after Kubernetes upgrade
about 5 hours · Global
Is the platform down, or is it your account?
Real-time status for the world's most popular social media platforms. When a feed won't load, stories won't post, or messages fail to send, check here first to see if it's a platform-wide outage. User reports from across the globe are aggregated the moment people start experiencing problems.
- Open a public profile in a private window. If public pages load but your feed doesn't, the issue is your session or your account.
- Note what breaks. Uploads, stories and DMs often fail while scrolling works. Picking the right problem type when you report helps others see the pattern.
- Check your notifications and email. A sudden logout or blocked actions for you alone can mean an account restriction, not an outage.
Frequently asked questions
Why is a social media app not loading or working?
Social media outages are usually caused by backend infrastructure failures, overloaded servers during peak traffic, failed software deployments, or CDN issues. They can affect all users globally or just specific regions or features.
Which social media platforms does DownStatus monitor?
DownStatus tracks Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X (Twitter), Snapchat, Reddit, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, and others. Live status for each platform is shown above.
How do I report a social media outage on DownStatus?
Click on any service in the list above, then use the "I have a problem" button on its status page. Your report is aggregated with others in real time and contributes to outage detection.
What causes major social media outages?
Large social platforms run extremely complex distributed systems. Outages are often caused by configuration changes that propagate incorrectly (like Facebook's 2021 six-hour outage caused by a BGP routing change), database failures, or bugs in new code deployments.