KUWAIT CITY, March 5: Have you been forcibly logged out of your Facebook account? You’re not alone.In Kuwait, users started experiencing a glitch on Tuesday at 6:30 pm local time. Widespread technical problems impacted Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, leading many users to encounter errors when attempting to access these social media platforms.

Users encountered various issues, including unexpected logouts from Facebook. When trying to log back in, they received error messages like “Something went wrong. Please try again.” The number of error reports surged around 10:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, surpassing 500,000 by 11 a.m., according to Downdetector, a monitoring service.

Additionally, Instagram users in Kuwait reported problems with their feeds not refreshing. The disruption also affected Meta’s Messaging platform and Threads, its Twitter-like app introduced the previous year.