- Title: Meta's Facebook, Instagram down for hundreds of thousands of users across globe
- Date: 5th March 2024
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - JUNE 29, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FACEBOOK ON LAPTOP AND CELLPHONE SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (FILE - FEBRUARY 21, 2023) (REUTERS) FACEBOOK SEARCH BOX SEEN IN WEB BROWSER POSTS ON FACEBOOK PERSON TYPING IN SEARCH BOX / SEARCH RESULT FOR PROFILE OF META PLATFORMS CHIEF EXECUTIVE, MARK ZUCKERBERG, APPEARING ON SCREEN PERSON OPENING FACEBOOK APP ON MOBILE PHONE AND SCROLLING FACEBOOK RESULTS NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - JUNE 29, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PERSON OPENING FACEBOOK APP ON MOBILE PHONE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - MARCH 14, 2019) (REUTERS) PERSON OPENING INSTAGRAM APP ON MOBILE PHONE AND SCROLLING THROUGH FEED
- Embargoed: 19th March 2024 17:19
- Keywords: Meta apps facebook instagram outage social media
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- Topics: Company News Markets,Economic Events
- Reuters ID: LVA003565005032024RP1
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- Story Text: Meta-owned META.O social media platforms Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users on Tuesday (March 5) in a global outage that has been going on for more than an hour.
The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET (1500 GMT), with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in.
There were more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and 40,000 reports for Instagram on tracking website Downdetector.com.
The social media giant, shares of which were down 1.5% in late morning trade, has about 3.19 billion daily active users across its family of apps, which also include WhatsApp and Threads.
Meta's status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.
Though the outage for WhatsApp and Threads was much smaller, with under 200 incident reports each on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.
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