Hundreds of thousands of users of Meta -owned social media sites reported platform outages on Tuesday amid an apparent global outage affecting popular sites like Facebook and Instagram.

Reports of outages across the sites appeared to dramatically rise around 10 a.m. ET. By 12:30 p.m., the outages, which were reported around the world, appeared largely resolved, according to tracking website Downdetector.com .

Metas head of communications, Andy Stone, blamed a technical issue for some users inability to access the companys servers.