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Meta's Facebook and Instagram hit by widespread outage

Published 2024-03-05, 12:49 p/m
© Reuters.  Meta's Facebook and Instagram hit by widespread outage

Proactive Investors - Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, ETR:FB2A, SWX:FB) apps Instagram, Facebook (NASDAQ:META), Messenger and Threads underwent widespread outages on Tuesday.

Shares in the parent company were down 1% at $492.91.

Users were unable to login, reset their password or access their accounts, leaving many taking to those social media outlets that remained up and running, namely Twitter and TikTok.

This was not something that a certain billionaire could let lie.

Facebook outages the Down Detector website saw more than 300,000 problems had been logged, with over 25,000 Instagram outages.

A Meta spokesman said "a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services" and said the problem had been resolved.

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