On Tuesday (5 March 2024) around 9 pm, the services of Meta's social media platform suddenly came to a standstill. Thousands of users around the world complained about popular websites like Facebook, Instagram and Threads not working. After being stalled for about two hours, all the services of Meta started working again around 11 pm, but due to global outage in these two hours, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta lost about 100 million dollars (Rs 8,29,03,05,000). ) has suffered a loss.
Let us tell you that millions of users around the world not only got disconnected from each other but also suffered huge financial losses. Due to this, shares of Facebook's parent company Meta fell by more than 1.5 percent.
On Tuesday, millions of users around the world were suddenly force logged out of Facebook. At the same time, users were not able to see the feed on Instagram and threads. Apart from this, there was also problem in sending messages. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told . Along with this he also expressed regret for the inconvenience.
Why did Meta services stop all over the world?
Let us tell you that in 2021, the server of Meta's social media platform was down for about 7 hours. However, this time the technical glitch was resolved by Meta within two hours. A Facebook insider said that the company's internal systems were down during the outage and Meta's service dashboard indicated a 'major disruption' to all services.