Meta services like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger experienced a global outage impacting hundreds of thousands of users. Elon Musk mocked the situation, while X CEO Linda Yaccarino sarcastically claimed everything was working fine on their platform.
On March 5, Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram went down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe. As per user reports, global outage 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 internet traffic tracking website Downdetector.com.
Meta acknowledged the issue on its status page with a message timestamped 10:17AM ET, reading, “We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” At 12:07PM ET, the status page said Meta is “recovering from an earlier outage impacting Facebook Login, and services are in the process of being restored.”
Elon Musk makes fun
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a dig at Facebook/Instagram parent Meta over the global outage.
“If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”, Musk wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Musk shared another post with a meme that has four penguins named X, Instagram, Facebook and Threads. While the penguin named X is seen dancing, the other three appear to be scratching their heads and wondering what went wrong. The meme also has Andy Stone, Meta’s head communications confirming the outage.
“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,” Stone wrote, acknowleding the disruption in services of Facebook and Instagram.
X CEO joins the fun
“Testing, testing… affirmative, everything is functioning smoothly here,” wrote X CEO Linda Yaccarino, taking a dig at its rival.
