Facebook and Instagram, Meta's two main social networks, are causing problems for their users, who have reported problems accessing these platforms. According to the website DownDetector, which specializes in detecting glitches in Internet-connected services in real time, users cannot access the platforms. The Facebook Messenger service also had problems. The above applications have recorded reports of poor service since 4:00 p.m. Spanish Peninsula Time. The peak of incidents was recorded half an hour later and an hour later the situation began to normalize.
The problems reported by Facebook users are essentially failed logins. Such complaints also make up the majority of Instagram users. Facebook Messenger also had problems, an application that is rarely used in Spain but is very popular in the United States, where it competes with WhatsApp as the most used instant messaging channel. Users also couldn't access Threads, Meta's alternative to X (formerly Twitter). Elon Musk, head of X, took the opportunity to poke fun at his business rivals with a few tweets.
In one of them he made fun of Andy Stone, the spokesman for Meta recognized in X: “We recognize that people have issues accessing our services. “We're working on it now.” Meta's business services status page reported a number of issues, including “major outages” in the group admin center, Facebook login or the business service for WhatsApp, another app owned by Mark Zuckerberg, the company he runs . Facebook is the most popular social network in the world with more than 3 billion active users. Instagram, in turn, collects 2,000 million, just like WhatsApp, also from Meta. Facebook Messenger attracts 900 million users.
However, the decline of these services coincided with reports of (less numerous) problems on other global platforms such as Google, Gmail or YouTube, which could be due to a more general infrastructure problem. This latest video website from Alphabet, has recognized in X which attempted to resolve access issues for some users. The New York Times speculates that these problems coincide with Thursday's deadline for tech giants such as Meta, Apple and Google to comply with the EU's new regulation, the Digital Markets Law, which requires them to adapt their products.
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