Meta-owned platforms; Facebook, Instagram and Threads on Tuesday evening went down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe, according to outage tracking website downdetector.com.
The disruptions started around 7:00 pm EAT, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website.
“We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,” Meta said in a post via X social media.
Meta’s status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.
There were around 200 reports of outages for WhatsApp on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users.
The outage was among the top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with several users saying they had suddenly been logged out of the Meta-owned social media platforms.
Source: Reuters
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