Meta-owned social media platforms
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are 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.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a dig at Facebook/Instagram parent Meta over the global outage.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk wrote, "If you're reading this post, it's because our servers are working."
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.
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