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MetaÔÇÖs platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, went down for thousands of users on Tuesday.

As many as 500,000 Facebook users had reported issues logging in or accessing the site as of mid-morning Eastern Time on Tuesday, according to outage tracker Downdetector. Around 50,000 outage reports had been issued regarding Instagram and another 10,000 for Facebook Messenger, although the number of reports had already begun to fall within an hour after they began.

Some users found they had been logged out of their Facebook accounts. Others got notifications on Instagram that ÔÇ£something went wrongÔÇØ and their feeds could not be loaded.

Threads, MetaÔÇÖs competitor to Elon MuskÔÇÖs X, also went down and showed users a popup that said ÔÇ£Something went wrong, please try again laterÔÇØ in place of their feed.

MetaÔÇÖs status page on Tuesday showed ÔÇ£major disruptionsÔÇØ impacting Facebook login, as well as some other areas of the platform.

ÔÇ£WeÔÇÖre aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,ÔÇØ Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X Tuesday.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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