Meta responds to Facebook, WhatsApp outage
"We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted," says Meta spokesperson
March 05, 2024
Meta has responded to the outage of its platforms as tens of thousands of users faced trouble across the world for over an hour.
In a statement on X, formerly, Andy Stone, a spokesperson of Meta, said: “We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.”
Meta's status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues. There were around 200 reports of outages for WhatsApp on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users.
The outage was among the top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with several users saying they had suddenly been logged out of the Meta-owned social media platforms.
Taking advantage of the rival social media site outage, X owner Elon Musk joined thousands of other users in mocking the Meta over the outage.
Musk posted on X a tweet from Meta communications boss Andy Stone highlighting the outrage onto a photo of three penguins emblazoned with Meta company logos saluting a penguin emblazoned with an X logo.
The Meta platform services were restored at 10pm with its spokesperson blaming "technical issue" for the outage.
"Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience," the spokesperson wrote on his official X handle.
