Facebook And Instagram Back Online After Technical Disorders

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JAKARTA - Facebook and Instagram owned by Meta resumed online on Wednesday morning after experiencing more than two hours of disruption caused by technical problems and affecting hundreds of thousands of users globally.

The disruption started at around 10 am ET (22.00 WIB), with many users saying on rival social media platform X that they had been wasted from Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in.

The White House National Security Council monitors the incident and is not aware of any specific malicious cyber activity at this time.

At the peak of the disruption, there were more than 550,000 reports of interference for Facebook and around 92,000 for Instagram, according to the Downdetector.com disruption tracking site.

"At the beginning of the day, technical problems caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We solved those problems... for everyone affected," Meta spokesman Andy Stone said in a post on X, without providing details on the matter.

Meta, whose shares fell 1.2% in the afternoon trade, did not immediately respond to requests for more details on the technical issues.

The company has about 3.19 billion daily active users across its family apps, which also includes WhatsApp and Threads.

His previous status board showed that the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business also had problems.

However, glitches for WhatsApp and Threads are much smaller, according to Downdetector, which tracks the glitch by collecting status reports from multiple sources including users.

Some Meta employees said on the Blind anonymous messaging app that they were unable to enter their internal work system, which led them to wonder if they were fired.

The disruption became one of the most talked about topics on X, Twitter previously, with platform owner Elon Musk taking satire against Meta with a post saying: "If you read this post, it's because our servers are working".

X himself has experienced some disruptions in his service following purchases by Musk in October 2022, with disruptions in December causing problems for more than 77,000 users in countries ranging from the United States to France.