Social Media Status
Live status checks for the big social networks — down for everyone, or just you?
Social networks fail loudly: the moment a feed stops refreshing, millions of people reach for another app to ask whether it’s down. This page collects our live status checks for the major social platforms in one place. Each service below is probed automatically every 15 minutes from our servers, so you can see at a glance which networks are healthy — then open a service’s dedicated page for a live on-demand check, its 24-hour uptime history, and what to do while it’s out.
Twitter (now X) is a real-time microblogging network where outages tend to be highly visible: timelines stop refreshing, tweets fail to post, or the site returns error pages during traffic spikes.
Instagram is Meta’s photo and video sharing platform. Because it shares infrastructure with Facebook and WhatsApp, Instagram outages often hit several Meta apps at once, with feeds, stories, and DMs failing together.
Facebook is the world’s largest social network. Full outages are rare but far-reaching — when Facebook goes down it usually takes Messenger and the Facebook login button used by thousands of other sites with it.
TikTok is a short-form video platform serving content from regional CDN edges around the world, so problems are often local: videos may fail to load in one country while the app works perfectly elsewhere.
Reddit is a community discussion platform known for its distinctive error mascots — when Reddit is overloaded you’ll often see the "Ow!" snoo or CDN errors instead of a clean failure.
Snapchat is a mobile-first messaging app, so most "is Snapchat down" moments show up as snaps stuck on "sending" or stories that will not load, rather than a website error you can see in a browser.
LinkedIn is Microsoft’s professional networking platform. Outages are less frequent than on consumer social networks, but feed loading errors and messaging delays do occur during deployments and traffic peaks.
Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform. Its image-heavy pages depend on CDN performance, so slow pins or endlessly loading boards are more common symptoms than a full site outage.
Threads is Meta’s text-based conversation app built on Instagram’s account system, which means an Instagram identity outage can prevent Threads logins even when Threads itself is healthy.
Why social networks go down
Large social platforms run on thousands of interdependent services — feeds, media storage, messaging, login — so an outage rarely means the whole site vanishes. More often one subsystem fails: images stop loading, DMs stall, or the feed shows stale posts while everything else works. Big incidents usually trace back to configuration changes, DNS or CDN problems, or overload during major events. That’s why our per-service pages report both a live reachability test and the response-time trend: a slowdown often precedes a full outage.
Down, or just blocked where you are?
Social apps are also where local problems masquerade as outages. Aggressive data-saving settings, corporate or school network blocks, VPNs, and regional restrictions all produce “it won’t load” symptoms while the platform itself is fine. Before assuming an outage, open the service’s page below: if our servers can reach it but your app can’t, the issue is almost certainly on your side — switch between Wi‑Fi and mobile data, disable your VPN, or try the web version in a browser.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which social media services can I check here?
We keep dedicated live status pages for Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Threads. Each page runs a live reachability test on demand and shows the last 24 hours of scheduled checks, so you can tell a momentary blip from a sustained outage.
Why does one social app fail while the others still work?
The platforms are independent companies on separate infrastructure, so a Facebook outage says nothing about Twitter/X. The exception is a shared-provider incident: when a major CDN, DNS, or cloud provider has problems, several unrelated apps can fail at once — checking two or three services on this page makes that pattern obvious.
A social network is down for everyone. How long until it’s back?
Most social-platform outages resolve within an hour or two, and the fix is entirely on their side. Keep the service’s status page here open to watch the checks recover, and be wary of “fix your account” advice circulating during outages — you rarely need to change anything locally.