Social Media Owned By Meta Platform Inc., Was Reportedly Collapsed Simultaneously

Meta Platforms Inc's social media application collapsed simultaneously. (photo: Doc. Pixabay)

JAKARTA - The social media application owned by Meta Platforms Inc appears to have returned to life after facing a brief disruption in the United States on Wednesday, January 25. This is known from data on the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

At the peak of the outage, there were more than 17,000 user reports indicating problems with Instagram in the United States, as of 2352 GMT. Meanwhile, there have been more than 13,000 incidents reported for the Facebook app. In fact, blackout reports also jumped briefly for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger at the same time. Blackouts like this, four platforms at once, have been rare.

Downdetector tracks outages by compiling status reports from multiple sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

These Big Tech platform outages are not uncommon as companies ranging from Alphabet Inc's Google to Microsoft Corp have also recently experienced service outages.

Microsoft was hit by earlier network outages on Wednesday 25 January that took down its Azure cloud platform along with services like Teams and Outlook, affecting millions of users globally.

While Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters, about the outage.