It won’t be an exaggeration to say that social media rules our world. Its significance can never be underestimated. Social media can link countless users at any time, everywhere. Information could be spread globally and its connectivity makes it simple for people to interact with one another. This results in global relationships. Hence when the social media is down it gets every user worried. Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, which are platforms managed by Meta, were down for over an hour on Tuesday evening for thousands of users in India and several other countries. The global Facebook and Instagram outage that left potentially millions unable to access their accounts was caused by an unspecified “technical issue”, Meta has said. Users found they were mysteriously logged out and not able to log back in, or could not open the app at all. Users were unable to load apps, deliver messages and refresh their search feeds on Facebook and Instagram. The outages were reportedly experienced in several other countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil. It may be recalled that on October 4 in 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for hours, as a result of faulty changes on routers.
