On March 5, local time, due to technical failures, a number of applications such as "Facebook" and "Instagram" (Instagram) under Meta in the United States went down for a time, affecting hundreds of thousands of users around the world, which lasted for more than 1 hour.
According to the report, the outage began at around 10 a.m. EST on the 5th, when many users said on the social ** platform "X" that they were "kicked out" by "Facebook" and "Instagram" and could not log in. Others reported that they received a "problem" notification on Instagram, causing the app to fail to load the push. According to Tracker**, they received more than 300,000 reports of outages on Facebook and 40,000 on Instagram, with outages lasting more than one hour.
Affected by the incident, Meta's stock price was **15%。Not only are these two Meta's main apps, but on the 5th, Meta's other two apps also had temporary problems, but the use of these two apps is small, and hundreds of problem reports have been received. Data shows that at present, the number of daily active users of various apps owned by Meta is about 31900 million.