Last Wednesday, Meta’s social networks suffered service disruptions that completely disabled the platforms for several hours. At the beginning of the afternoon, hundreds of users reported on social networks such as X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky that the company’s platforms were experiencing technical problems.
WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and even the official Meta page presented failures that ranged from irregular and slow service to the complete collapse of the platform, depending on the user.
Pages such as Down for Everyone or Just Me and Downdetector, sites dedicated to filing user reports about irregular behavior on the internet, recorded around 22,000 and 18,000 reports about technical problems on the Facebook and WhatsApp platforms respectively.
These reports came from all over the world. Technical failures were recorded in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
The company took just a few hours to make a statement, recording on its status page that the company’s platforms had “major disruptions,” the origin or nature of which has not yet been revealed and appears to remain confidential.
“We are aware that a technical issue is affecting the ability of some users to access our applications,” the company wrote on its official X account. “We are working to get everything back to normal as soon as possible and we apologize for the inconvenience. discomfort.”
A couple of hours later, Meta appears to have fixed the flaws in its system. The company wrote again on Threads’ biggest competitor that “we are at 99% functionality, we are just doing the last checks. We apologize to those who have been affected by the interruption.”
This is the second significant failure that Meta has suffered in 2024. Last March the company experienced similar disruptions to its platform, which they attributed to the same non-specific “technical glitches” that Meta used to explain the current situation.
Via: Engadget
