Bodyguard incident
Connectivity issues with social media platforms
Bodyguard experienced a minor incident on February 18, 2026 affecting Facebook and Instagram and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 18, 2026, 09:02 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are experiencing connectivity issues with some social media platforms, resulting in significant disconnections. Impact: You may be receiving repeated automated emails asking you to reconnect your account. Please disregard these emails. Your connection is likely still active, and no action is required on your part. Status: Our engineering team is investigating the issue. Affected components Youtube (Partial outage) Facebook (Partial outage) Instagram (Partial outage) Twitter (Partial outage) Discord (Partial outage) TikTok (Partial outage)
- identified Feb 18, 2026, 09:45 AM UTC
Status: Identified The issue is affecting only Instagram accounts. Affected components Facebook (Operational) Instagram (Partial outage) Twitter (Operational) Discord (Operational) TikTok (Operational) Youtube (Operational)
- monitoring Feb 18, 2026, 09:47 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have successfully reconnected all concerned Instagram accounts and are currently monitoring them. Affected components TikTok (Operational) Youtube (Operational) Facebook (Operational) Instagram (Operational) Twitter (Operational) Discord (Operational)
- resolved Feb 18, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Status: Resolved Everything is back to normal. Affected components Twitter (Operational) Discord (Operational) TikTok (Operational) Youtube (Operational) Facebook (Operational) Instagram (Operational)