Is Facebook still down? Here is what we know about failures that affect meta platforms

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Problems occurred on Wednesday afternoon with the meta apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, since thousands of people reported the apps on Downdetector-although Meta said shortly after 5:30 p.m. EST said that the problem was almost resolved.

On July 7, 2023, people gather in front of a sign at the headquarters of Meta on July 7, 2023 … (+) Menlo Park, California. Since the start, the new META thread platform has grown to 70 million users. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Important facts

The reports about failures increased from around 12:30 p.m. EST, with more than 100,000 Facebook users reporting their problems on downdetector until around 1:10 p.m.

Tens of thousands of Instagram users also reported problems, while there was a similar increase in WhatsApp and threads.

Shortly before 5:30 p.m., the number of reports reported on Facebook had dropped to just over 1,200, the number of Instagram reports dropped from a maximum value from over 68,000 to around 1,900 and the reports about problems with WhatsApp and Messenger were far below their maximum .

When trying to access Facebook, some users received the error message “We are working to fix the problem as soon as possible.”

On the Meta’s status and failure side for its business products, it says that almost all of the tools and platforms listed, including Facebook Ads Manager, Messenger API for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp Business API, shortly after 5:30 p.m. ES under “Serious disorders” suffered.

But in a post on we apologize to those who are affected by the failure. ”

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Important background

The failure of Meta on Wednesday follows a global failure in March, which lasted more than two hours. Meta said that the failure was caused by a technical problem, Reuters reported and affected hundreds of thousands of users. At the peak of this failure, there were more than 538,000 reports of problems with Facebook and more than 91,000 problems with Instagram, reported the New York Times.

tangent

The failure of Meta follows at least two further technical failures of recent times. On November 25th, some Microsoft platforms were not available for more than a day. Microsoft did not indicate which change affected programs, but the failure occurred on the same day as the introduction of a new recall AI tool for Windows insiders, which was to create regular snapshots of computer activity. At the beginning of the week, on November 21, Reddit had two failures within 24 hours, as more than 76,000 users reported reports on problems with the website and the app on downdetector.

Forbes rating

On the Forbes-Global 2000 list of the world’s largest listed companies, Meta is number 24, measured in terms of sales, profit, assets and market value. Meta was noted in June with a turnover of around $ 142.7 billion, a profit of $ 45.8 billion and a market value of $ 1.197 trillion.

Further literature

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