{"id":159096,"date":"2024-03-05T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/05\/facebook-instagram-back-up-after-global-outage\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:55:13","slug":"facebook-instagram-back-up-after-global-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/05\/facebook-instagram-back-up-after-global-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Instagram back up after global outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.<\/p>\n<p>The disruptions started at around 10am ET (1500 GMT), with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in.<\/p>\n<p>The White House National Security Council was monitoring the incident and not aware of any specific malicious cyber activity at this time, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>At the peak of the outage, there were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue \u2026 for everyone who was impacted,\u201d Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X, without elaborating on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Meta (META.O), opens new tab, whose shares were down 1.2% in afternoon trading, did not immediately respond to a request seeking more details on the technical problem.<\/p>\n<p>The company has about 3.19 billion daily active users across its family of apps, which also includes WhatsApp and Threads.<\/p>\n<p>Its status dashboard earlier showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.<\/p>\n<p>However, the outage for WhatsApp and Threads was much smaller, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.<\/p>\n<p>Several employees of Meta said on anonymous messaging app Blind that they were unable to log in to their internal work systems, which left them wondering if they were laid off, according to posts seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The outage was among the top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with the platform\u2019s owner Elon Musk taking a shot at Meta with a post that said: \u201cIf you\u2019re reading this post, it\u2019s because our servers are working\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Explore the world of impactful news with CitiNewsroom on WhatsApp!<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link to join the Citi Newsroom channel for curated, meaningful stories tailored just for YOU: <strong>https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCYzPRAYlUPudDDe53x<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No spams, just the stories that truly matter! #StayInformed #CitiNewsroom #CNRDigital<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally. 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