Widespread Outage Hits Meta's Social Media Platforms, Users Worldwide Struggle to Access Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Today, social media users worldwide experienced widespread frustration as Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram
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Today, social media users worldwide experienced widespread frustration as Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and others, encountered a major outage. Users reported being unexpectedly logged out of their accounts and encountering various difficulties while attempting to use the platforms. Additionally, some users faced issues with WhatsApp, a messaging app owned by Meta.
The outage was evident on DownDetector.com, a website that tracks internet outages, with a significant surge in user reports indicating the extent of the problem. Many users turned to Twitter, owned by Elon Musk, to express their frustrations and report the issue. One user humorously tweeted about the situation, stating, "Facebook is down, so I guess I'll come hang out with my Twitter peeps. How are we doing on this Tuesday, friends!?"
Users across all affected Meta platforms encountered challenges with resetting passwords and using two-factor authentication to log back into their accounts.
This outage is considered the most significant one of the year so far, impacting major social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp on a global scale. It's worth noting that YouTube was not affected by the outage.
