Facebook and Instagram down - updates: Meta gives reason for worldwide outage
Outage was global, according to tracking website Down Detector
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The global Facebook and Instagram outage that left potentially millions unable to access their accounts was caused by an unspecified “technical issue”, Meta has said.
Users found they were mysteriously logged out and not able to log back in, or could not open the app at all.
The outage was global, according to tracking website Down Detector, where tens of thousands of users reported being unable to access their account.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the issue was resolved on Tuesday and apologised on behalf of the tech giant without revealing much in terms of details.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologise for any inconvenience,” Mr Stone said.
Meta probably wants an undo button
Tuesday’soutage at Instagram came just a day after it announced that it will be letting people edit and undo their direct messages (DMs).
Meta introduced it yesterday with a message that might be the exact words someone at its headquarters are saying to themselves now.
(Little errors have caused big problems at Meta before. In 2021 it said that a huge outage was the result of a single wrong command that took its “backbone” offline.)
Russian internet hit by unexplained behaviour as Facebook and Instagram appear
Tuesday’s Facebook and Instagram outages come around after a week after strange occurrences on the internet in Russia.
Telegram, the country’s most popular messaging app, went down, along with other platforms such as YouTube and social media site Vkontakte.
At the same time, Instagram and Facebook users found they were able to get to those sites for the first time in two years.
Read the full story here:
Russian internet suddenly starts behaving oddly
YouTube also went down as users found themselves able to access Meta platforms for the first time in two years
Watch: Meta outage: Facebook, Instagram back online after disruption
Mark Zuckerberg stuns UFC 298 fans after appearing in corner of defending champion
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faced issues on Tuesday after major outages across its platforms Instagram and Facebook.
Back in January the tech entrepeneur stunned UFC fans as he appeared in the corner of Alexander Volkanovski as the Australian defended his featherweight title in Anaheim, California.
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Mark Zuckerberg stuns UFC 298 fans after appearing in corner of defending champion
The Facebook founder cornered Australian great Alexander Volkanovski ahead of the main event of UFC 298
Social media platforms Facebook and Instagram back online after outage
Elon Musk mocked Meta on Tuesday after the company saw major outages on its platforms Instagram and Facebook.
But it’s not the first time the Tesla and X boss has butted heads with fellow tech giant Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.
Last year, in a bizarre online feud, the pair went back and forth on social media, baiting each other about the prospect of a cage fight, before the argument seemed to peter out. In November Mr Musk appeared to reignite the feud.
Read the story her from Alex Pattle:
Elon Musk reignites Mark Zuckerberg fight feud: ‘A duel under any circumstances’
The tech giants went back and forth earlier this year over the prospect of a cage fight
Elon Musk trolls Meta
X boss Elon Musk, as ever took advantage of the chaos to troll Meta.
“If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working,” he wrote earlier on Tuesday.
Outage was not a cyber attack
#CyberAttack is trending on Twitter and many are expressing panic that their accounts have been hacked.
But there is no reason to think it was anything other than a standard (if very dramatic) technical problem caused by Meta itself. And that is what the company has seemingly indicated (see below).
Meta spokesperson says problem is resolved
Andy Stone, Meta spokesperson, has said that the problem is resolved.
‘Recovering from disruptions'
Meta’s business status page is now showing most of its services as “Recovering from disruptions”.
While it doesn’t run a similar page for its consumer products, you can imagine it would say the same: services appear to be recovering, even if they are not fully back yet.
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