Instagram and Facebook have both reported a widespread service outage as a result of which many netizens have been grappling with accessing Meta’s slew of apps.
As per Down Detector, the service interruption began in India at 8:33 pm with user reports for Instagram outage peaking to 31,447 at 8:58 pm. Of this, 60% issues were flagged against app, 33% against login and 6% against uploading at the time of the filing of this story.
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Similarly, for Facebook, the peak user report against outage was at 9:02 pm with as high as 27,465 reports. Of these reports, 63% were against login, 30% against app and 7% against website.
Several users even took to X to express their views regarding the inconvenience.
Facebook outage this morning- as millions of users thought “I’ve been hacked”! Twitter (I will NOT call it X) sort of exploded mid morning, with ” Have I been hacked”messages and comments that Facebook, Messenger and Instagram were down! Everyone can start breathing again!
— markssilverman (@marksilvermanmd) March 5, 2024
Instagram users coming to 𝕏 to see if Instagram is down 🧐#instagram downpic.twitter.com/lIScH4vOma
— JACKIE APPU (@JACKIEAPPU1) March 5, 2024
Facebook and instagram down
Meanwhile X :#instagramdown #facebookdown #INSTAGRAM #Facebookpic.twitter.com/K1ELJtt0Zr— 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗 𓆩♡𓆪 (@Chandan_CG_) March 5, 2024
#MarkZuckerberg you’re still enjoying the wedding ceremony of Ambani’s son??
Here we’re facing trouble to login in #Facebook & #INSTAGRAM
Do something as soon as possible…😂#facebookdown #instagramdown— Rishat Rahman (@ImRishat) March 5, 2024
Taking a note of this app outage at Meta platforms, Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), took to his own platform to take a dig at the rival platform.
Here’s what he said.
If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2024
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2024
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