YouTube reports outage after Facebook and Instagram crash

YouTube users are reporting an outage on the online video platform that is currently impacting some 5,000 users.

The report comes after Meta products Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram went down globally earlier on Tuesday, impacting millions of users worldwide.

the outage has reached the UK, parts of Europe, China, Australia and Mexico - sending Meta's stock price tumbling.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, addressed the issue via X this morning, telling users: 'we're on it!' and 'will follow up here once things are back to normal.'

The video-posting platform experienced an apparent outage on the same day that Meta products went down all over the world

Addressing the Meta outage, a source inside Facebook told DailyMail.com that the company's internal systems were also down.

At around 10.30am EST on Tuesday, DownDetector, which monitors online outages, began showing hundreds of thousands in the US alone having problems with Facebook, and tens of thousands with Instagram. 

Facebook and Messenger's glitches surfaced when users noticed they were getting kicked out of their accounts and were unable to log back in - even with proper credentials. 

Users soon began flocking to X to complain about the outage and share memes, much to the delight of owner Elon Musk.

Some people experiencing issues initially thought their accounts may have been hacked, but there are more than 80,000 posts on X about Facebook and Instagram being down. 

Musk soon took to his own platform to make light of his competitors' downfall.

'If you can see this post, it's because our servers working,' he gloated. 

Many users were trying to log on to Facebook thinking their accounts had been hacked - unaware that a global outage was occurring

The issues cropped up around 10:20am ET (3:20pm GMT) and are impacting both apps and websites for the services - although Meta's WhatsApp seems unaffected

Elon Musk shared this tweet suggesting his social media app was superior to Meta rivals Instagram, Facebook and Threads 

The source of the Meta and YouTube outages remained unclear into the afternoon on Tuesday.

Meta, unlike YouTube, did not formally comment on the matter until the afternoon, when they said the issue had been resolved across its platforms. 

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that the company had 'resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted' and though he did not disclose the reason for the outage, he said it stemmed from a 'technical issue.'

'Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,' he posted to X.

The timing of the outage has raised some eyebrows as Americans are heading to the polls today in 15 states to cast primary election ballots ahead of the November presidential election.