New Delhi: Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram experienced widespread outages affecting global social media users. Users expressed their frustrations on various platforms on Tuesday, reporting difficulties accessing the services and complaining of automatic logouts from their Facebook and other associated accounts.
Meta spokesperson, Andy Stone said the company was aware of the troubles being faced by users worldwide, adding that it was working to resolve the issue.
“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,” Stone posted on X.
We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) March 5, 2024
DownDetector website showed a spike in graphs showing the widespread outage being experienced by users.
According to the outage monitoring service, the service interruption in India started around 8. 30 pm.At least 14,857 users flagged difficulty in using Facebook and 32,518 users in using Instagram, according to the website.
The DownDetector map showed outages being experienced in cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and many others.
The website also showed outages being experienced not just in India, but in several other countries as well, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil. Facebook users in Nepal also complained that they are not able to access Facebook and even Facebook Messenger.
