Instagram, Facebook Down World-Wide, Meta Is Working To Address The Problem As Users Report Calls To Change Passwords Log In Again.
Instagram and Facebook were unavailable On Tuesday. Some users requested to modify their log-in password, while others reported being unable to refresh Instagram pages. A representative for Meta stated that the company is aware of users who are experiencing difficulties using its services. At about ten o'clock at night, service was resumed.
Ankush Pandey
Following an outage reported Tuesday evening in India and many other parts of the world, Facebook and Instagram services were restored. Users on these two social media sites complained about difficulties logging in. They had removed their Facebook and Instagram accounts. Some users could not get Instagram pages to refresh. It was requested by many people to update their passwords. Users of YouTube soon began to experience a similar problem.
Messages such as "Log in again; session expired; couldn't refresh feed" appeared when utilizing the Instagram and Facebook apps. On Tuesday, about 8:30 p.m., the disturbances began
Tens of thousands of users were unable to access Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The website that analyses outages by compiling status updates from many sources, including users, indicates that there were over 3,00,000 complaints of outages for Facebook and over 20,000 incidents for Instagram.
Reuters claims that the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was having problems, as evidenced by Meta's status dashboard. On Downdetector, which analyses outages by compiling status data from multiple sources, including users, there were almost 200 complaints of WhatsApp disruptions.
However, on Tuesday night, around ten o'clock, service was resumed.
Meta reacts
"People are experiencing difficulties using our services, as we are aware. A representative for Meta, Andy Stone, stated in a post on X social network, "We are working on this right now.
Stone apologized and tweeted, "Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services," when the services were restored. We are sorry for any difficulty caused, and we worked fast to find a solution for everyone affected."
Elon Musk, the owner of X (previously Twitter), didn't hesitate to poke fun at Meta, stating, "If you're reading this post, it's because our servers are working."
Netizens fear hacking, cyber attack
Numerous users reported Facebook and Instagram outages on the microblogging platform X. "Is Meta down or am I being hacked? ???? My Facebook is also saying "session locked out," and Instagram isn't loading," a user said. "I thought my Facebook and Instagram got hacked for a second," remarked another.
Another user tweeted, "I'm checking Twitter to see if #INSTAGRAM is down again." "I've been scrambling to change passwords three times, thinking I'm racing the hackers like in a movie, lol," said X user "Fram Freeman."
