Meta Platforms' social media giants, Facebook and Instagram, experienced a major outage affecting thousands of users on Tuesday, March 5, as reported by the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
The incident led to a surge of frustration among the user base, with over 300,000 reports of outages flooding in for Facebook, and an additional 47,000 reports for Instagram.
Andy Stone, Communications Director at Meta, said on X, previously known as Twitter, that the company led by Mark Zuckerberg is actively addressing the mentioned issue.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk seized the opportunity to make a sly comment on the outage via his social media platform. He remarked, "If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working."
