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In a surprising turn of events, social media giants Instagram and Facebook experienced a widespread service disruption, leaving users across the globe unable to access these popular platforms. The outage, which began late on Tuesday, prompted a flurry of frustrated users to express their grievances on alternative social media platforms, particularly Twitter. |
Meta, the parent company led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, acknowledged the issue, and Meta Communications Director Andy Stone assured users that a fix is currently underway. WhatsApp, another platform owned by Meta, seems unaffected at the time of reporting.
According to outage monitoring service Downdetector, the service interruption began around 8:33 pm local time in India, with over 19,290 reports of outages logged from across the country. The impact of this recent outage transcended India, affecting Instagram users in numerous countries worldwide, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Users expressed their frustration at being unable to view photos and profile pictures within the Instagram app, emphasizing the widespread impact on the user experience. Downdetector's data highlighted the concentration of problems in major Indian cities, including Bengaluru, Delhi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, and Hyderabad.
Meta has a dedicated status page indicating the current status of its business products, which currently shows a Major Disruptions label for services such as Facebook, Graph, and WhatsApp Business.
Stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.
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