Meta Outage Resolved, Facebook and Instagram Back Online: All the Details
Facebook’s parent company Meta has confirmed that the technical problem that temporarily affected the Facebook and Instagram services of thousands of users has been fixed and the site is now functional for most users.
“A technical issue caused some people to have difficulty accessing our products. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible,” a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.
At the peak of the outage, Facebook saw up to 11,000 reported cases, while Instagram saw about 7,000 reported cases, according to Downdetector.com, via Reuters. It was also reported that users had difficulties with Facebook’s Messenger online messaging service.
Downdetector is a website that gathers information about outages by collecting status updates from a variety of sources – including user reports submitted on its platform.
By 8:30 PM ET (01:30 GMT), the number of outages had dropped to 11 on Instagram and 81 on Facebook, according to Reuters.
In other news, Twitter also suffered an outage, leaving some users unable to tweet with the error message “You have exceeded your daily tweet limit.”
Down detector data shows that around 5 p.m. ET, Twitter was unavailable to about 9,000 users in the United States. By 6 p.m., there were 2,500 fewer outages in the East.
Twitter’s support account confirmed the incident, saying: “Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are aware and working to fix this.”
(via Reuters feeds)
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