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Meta’s Facebook, Instagram down for hundreds of thousands of users across globe

Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website. "We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on 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 tr...
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Facebook down: App back after brief outage

Meta Platforms' Facebook app faced a brief outage including in India, but is now back up. Many users reported that they were not being able to post any updates for a while and the same was reported by Downdetector with a sudden spike in number of problem reports being submitted by some fuming users.As many as 50% of these were from App users, 33% on the Website and as many as 17% on server connection. The problem persisted for some users for over 2 hours although the jump to normalcy was as quick as the spike. While the glitch has been solved, Facebook has not reacted to the problem so far. On Downdetector, some frustrated users got quite personal and addressed their problem directly to the Meta CEO. Monnie T. Dabney posted, “Hello Mark Zuckerberg, I can't login to my Facebook account....
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WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram DOWN: Outage leaves thousands of users frustrated

Home Tech News WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram DOWN: Outage leaves thousands of users frustrated WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram are down according to reports. As many as 13,000 users have faced issues on the platforms. By: HT TECH | Updated on: Jul 11 2023, 07:33 IST All three major services of Meta Platforms, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are facing outage, keeping as many as 13,000 users from accessing the apps. (REUTERS) All three major services of Meta Platforms, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are facing outage, keeping as many as 13,000 users from accessing the apps. (REUTERS) WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram down: All three major platforms of Meta, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing major outages. Foll...
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Twitter down! iPhone users report issues accessing Twitter

Twitter went down for thousands of users last night. Just a week after almost all the social media services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and even YouTube went down for hours, Twitter again faced an outage after thousands of users reported not being able to use the mobile app version of the social media platform. The issue was widespread as people globally reported various problems they were facing.Twitter downAccording to DownDetector. com, more than 8000 reports were filed by users who were not able to access Twitter around 12:20 AM IST. Although thousands of reports came in, the issue was limited to iPhone's mobile app while the website and the Android version of the app seemed to be working fine. 70% of users reported issues with the app, while 25% users reported issues with t...
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YouTube down! Users report partial outage of homepage

YouTube, the online video sharing platform, was facing an outage just hours after Twitter, Facebook and Instagram went down. Hundreds of users reported facing an error while loading the homepage of YouTube. At this moment, it is not clear how widespread the issue is, but the majority of the reports have been coming in from the USA. The issue was recorded by DownDetector, an independent outage monitor, which noticed huge spikes for YouTube since today morning. Based on the reports, it does seem that the issue has been resolved.The official Twitter account of DownDetector also tweeted about the incident, saying, “User reports indicate YouTube is having problems since 7:01 PM EST.” The first spike was noticed around at 5:19 AM IST with 942 users reporting the issue. The issue was at its ...
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WhatsApp, Instagram went down again; This time in this country

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook went down again in the late hours of October 28 in the UK. WhatsApp seems to be going through a lot of technical difficulties lately. Just after the 2 hour-outage a few days ago, WhatsApp went down again. And not only WhatsApp, even Instagram and Facebook also went down. The outage was mostly observed in the UK and it lasted only for a short while. However, it ended up affecting a lot of users complaining on social media platforms.The outage was mostly observed in the UK and had caused all of Meta's service to be unavailable. A meta spokesperson said in a statement to Express.co.uk, “Earlier today, a configuration change caused some people to have trouble accessing our products. We fixed the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, ...
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Facebook breaks DOWN, shows random spam posts from celebrities

Facebook has reportedly gone down for thousands of users across the world with a weird bug – it is showing random spam posts from celebrities. Facebook has gone down for thousands of users across the world and it is causing strange issues. Based on several user complaints on social media as well as Downdetector, it seems the issue is widespread. Several users have complained of Facebook showing weird spam posts from popular celebrity accounts around the world. The issue started at around 11:00 AM this morning and by 1 PM, it peaked. Facebook is yet to release any statement regarding the weird bug.The issue was first reported internationally and eventually several users from India complained of the same. However, we accessed ...