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All of Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads – went down on Wednesday in a major outage that affected users around the world. The company’s systems ...
Facebook had up to 105,000 outage reports, Facebook Messenger roughly 14,000 and messaging app WhatsApp about 12,500. Threads, the X competitor, also had an uptick in outage reports.
Meta says most issues have been resolved after apps like Instagram, Facebook and Threads were experiencing issues on Wednesday afternoon and errors were reported by people across the internet.
CNBC reported that the outage was the worst experienced by Facebook since 2008. [21] During the day of the outage, shares in the company dropped by nearly 5% and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's wealth fell by more than $6 billion. [21] [22] [23] According to a report produced by Fortune and Snopes, Facebook lost at least $60 million in ...
Causes of stress included fear of missing important social information, fear of offending contacts, discomfort or guilt from rejecting user requests or deleting unwanted contacts or being unfriended or blocked by Facebook friends or other users, the displeasure of having friend requests rejected or ignored, the pressure to be entertaining ...
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
Instagram and WhatsApp are now back online after a mass global outage affected several Meta-owned apps on Wednesday. Facebook has yet to confirm whether all its issues have been resolved.
Many adults are also reporting specific negative impacts on their mental health and well-being, such as difficulty sleeping (60%) or eating (80%), increases in alcohol consumption or substance abuse (50%), and worsening of chronic conditions (35%), due to worry and stress over education and employment conditions. [20]