Meta assures it has now fixed a “technical issue” that caused Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook to be unavailable. Roughly 297,000 people across the world were hampered to use them for around 2 hours on Tuesday. There were frustrating moments when people tried to access the websites and applications only to be presented with error messages and could only refresh their feeds as before.

Meta also apologised to those affected by the issue, stating they had done their best. The online resource for tracking website Downdetector pointed out multiple countries being affected. Meta’s platforms are now among the most used in the world. Facebook reached 3 billion monthly active users, while Instagram users were announced to reach 1.4 billion globally by the end of this year, reports Technology News UK.

Like its other Twitter competitor, Threads, a project launched in 2023, Meta also reported downtime. Facebook, though Meta used it, was not influenced. Meta had the biggest trouble in 2021 when the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, apologised because of the services’ intermittentity.

Unfortunately, at that time, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram were down for about six hours.

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