The Meta platforms were inaccessible this Tuesday, March 5, due to an outage that lasted several hours.
Users of Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms experienced connection issues following a widespread outage for several hours on Tuesday.
“Unable to refresh thread“, “Session timed out“…Many users have complained about not being able to access these platforms.
The specialized site Down Detector, which gives users real-time information on the status of various services, has received nearly 600,000 reports for Facebook.
Andy Stone, Meta’s communications manager, acknowledged the problem on X, formerly known as Twitter, and later announced that “a technical problem has caused difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone affected and apologize for the inconvenience caused.“.
The owner of X, Elon Musk, joked about this failure. “If you are reading this message, it is because our servers are working” he wrote in a publication.
Every month, nearly 4 billion people use at least one of the social media giant Meta’s platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp.
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