Instagram, Facebook services resume after outage
ALSO READ: Instagram, Facebook down globally: Meta 'working' to solve issue as users flag call to 'log in again, change password' According to details, the disruptions started around 8:30 pm on Tuesday, with 'Log in again; session expired; couldn't refresh feed', were some of the messages that popped up while using the Facebook and Instagram apps. Outage tracking website Downdetector.com also revealed that Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were down for tens of thousands of users on Tuesday. According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, there were 31,493 reports of outage on Instagram app at 9.23 pm, while 24,193 reports for Facebook at 9.09 pm.
However, Downdetector.com showed that overall more than 3,00,000 reports of outages for Facebook, while there were more than 20,000 reports for Instagram. According to Reuters, 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.
Reacting to the outage, Meta responded. "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.
Soon after the outage ended on Meta platforms, reports arrived that YouTube, a popular video streaming site, resumed its services after a short outage. Earlier, numerous users reported encountering errors while attempting to load the YouTube homepage. User had earlier switched to another social network X, WhatsApp and other online portals to report network outages faced while connecting to Google and Meta-owned platforms.
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