- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Our servers are working, said X owner Musk as the outage continued.
By: Shubham Ghosh
VARIOUS social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, went down for several users in India and various countries of the world, outage tracking website Downdetector said.
As a result, users could not load apps, deliver messages or refresh their search feeds on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. While more than 30,000 reports of outages on Facebook were received, more than 20,000 were received on Instagram, the website said.
Many users found themselves getting logged out of their Facebook accounts. They failed despite being asked to log in.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said on X that they were working on the issue.
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We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) March 5, 2024
WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, did not report any outages. Threads, the newly launched rival to X, was down too. Users flocked to X and posted about the outages. Memes were also doing rounds on issue with Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and #InstaGram trending on the platform.
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Elon Musk, owner of X, took a dig at Meta posting on his social media platform, “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”
If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2024
He posted another cartoon showing three penguins representing Instagram, Facebook and Threads saluting another wearing the captain’s cap and aviator glasses. It also featured the post made the Stone that they were working on the matter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2024
In July last year, a major outage was reported across Meta platforms including WhatsApp. The services were restored later in the day.
