Facebook and Instagram suffered another service disruption on Wednesday, July 22, marking the second outage affecting Meta’s platforms within 72 hours. Thousands of users reported difficulties accessing the services, logging in and maintaining connections.
This disruption is affecting both Facebook and Instagram. Problems being experienced include difficulty accessing accounts, application and website connectivity, and functionality. Others are also reporting challenges maintaining connection and using certain features on the applications.
Reports of the outage have been increasing with people turning to alternative social media platforms for help due to the disruption. According to Downdetector statistics, there has been a rise in reports of issues concerning Facebook, which includes login difficulties and connectivity.
This is coming after an outage experienced last Sunday, July 19, where users experienced challenges accessing and logging in to the services provided by Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.
Meta has not publicly confirmed the cause of the latest outage. There is no immediate response from Meta regarding the reason behind the disruption whether it is due to technical issues or any other factor.
The absence of an immediate explanation has left users seeking information through alternative platforms. Outages have occurred before which have disrupted various services provided by Meta, which makes it very hard to figure out if a common technical issue has caused this disruption.
For now, it seems that this particular outage has been sorted out. However, the second outage within 72 hours brings the reliability of Meta’s infrastructure into question.
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