Meta Restores Services after Outages
Meta has said it has resolved "technical issues" which caused Facebook, Messenger and Instagram to go down.
Hundreds of thousands of users worldwide were unable to access their accounts for around two hours today
People trying to log into the websites and apps were received error messages and were unable to refresh their feeds as normal.
Meta's platforms are some of the most popular in the world. Facebook has three billion active monthly users, while Instagram is expected to hit 1.4 billion worldwide later this year.
Threads, its rival to Twitter, that was launched in 2023, also reported outages. WhatsApp, which Meta also owns, was unaffected.
Meta, however, apologised to those who had been affected, saying it resolved the problem as quickly as it could.
Tracking website Downdetector indicated the outages had affected multiple countries.
The biggest outage Meta experienced was in 2021, when founder Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the disruption caused.
On that occasion Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram services went down for almost six hours.
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