Meta services such as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads were down for 2 hours due to a failure, and Meta Quest was also unusable.



After 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on March 5, 2024 (0:00 a.m. on March 6, 2024 Japan Time), a problem occurred on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, making the services unavailable. At the time of writing the article, it has returned, but the cause has not been revealed so far.

Meta's Facebook, Instagram back up after global outage | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-facebook-instagram-down-thousands-downdetector-shows-2024-03-05/

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads were all down - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out

Meta Servers Broken, All Quest Headsets Unusable
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-servers-malfunctioning-quest-unusable/

Starting around 10 a.m. local time on March 5, users of Meta services such as Facebook and Instagram reported on SNS that they were forced to log out of the app and were unable to log in.

According to Downdetector, a site that monitors technical failure information, there were approximately 550,000 failure reports on Facebook and 92,000 failure reports on Instagram at the peak.



Meta's VR headset, Quest, also malfunctioned, with the screen of Quest 2 and Quest 3 in standby mode connected to Wi-Fi displaying the message 'A problem has occurred' and causing the main system interface to fail. is no longer displayed.

The scale of the problem is such that the US government is taking action, with a White House spokesperson for the US National Security Council telling the media, ``We are closely monitoring the incident, but so far we have not seen any specific malicious cyber attacks.'' I am not aware of it.''

Additionally, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told X (formerly Twitter): 'We are aware that there are issues accessing our service. We are currently working on this issue.' I posted.



The Meta service failure was resolved in about 2 hours, and it was now possible to use the service normally. Facebook's login status history shows that after a major outage occurred at 10:17 a.m. on the 5th (0:17 a.m. on the 6th Japan time), one hour and 50 minutes later at 12:07 p.m. It has been reported that the issue has been restored at 14:27 (4:27), which is the latest report at the time of article creation, and it is marked as ``resolved.'' However, Meta has not disclosed the specific cause of the failure so far.

'Earlier today, technical issues made it difficult to access some of our services,' Stone wrote in a follow-up post. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.'



Since the cause has not been clarified, various speculations and reactions have been flying around on the Internet, especially that March 5th is ' Super Tuesday ', a very important day when the primary elections for the 2024 U.S. presidential election are concentrated. '', leading to concerns that the issue may be related to voting.

Among them, there was a far-fetched suggestion that ``Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's Instagram call for people to vote may have led to the suspension of the service because it was considered to be interfering with the election.'' That's it.

Elon Musk, the owner of X, posted to X, ``If you're reading this, it's because our servers are running,'' ironically commenting on the failure. In addition, X has frequently faced service interruptions after being acquired by Mr. Musk, and in December 2023, the service stopped, affecting 77,000 users in a wide range of regions such as the United States and France. You may.



This isn't the first time Meta has experienced a major outage across multiple services, with Facebook at the time having its system down in 2021 due to a major outage that took six hours to recover. Ta .

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