Post by account_disabled on Mar 16, 2024 4:18:11 GMT
The global failure of Meta's applications - Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Messenger - resulted in billions of users (over 20 million in Poland) being cut off from the platforms they use to communicate with family, friends and run their businesses. And although the interruption in access to services lasted much shorter than the famous failure of October 2021 (just "an hour"), thousands of Internet users were looking for answers to the question of how to log in to their accounts. In this article, we will try to summarize not only the recent events, but also try to answer the question of how to survive failures of Facebook and other applications and what not to do.
Table of Contents Hide 1. Facebook logged out users, or what happened Find Your Phone Number on March 5? 2. Facebook not working? Follow these 5 simple steps 3. What not to do when Facebook, Instagram or Messenger stops working? 4. I can't log in to Facebook and Instagram and I run a business on social media - what should I do about it? Facebook logged out users, or what happened on March 5? The first information from people who had problems with the operation of the application appeared around 4:00 p.m. At least that's what the chart on the popular DownDetector website indicates . It is worth knowing that the website itself is not an official place for companies to communicate about the unavailability of services - it works only based on simple reports from users. So it is possible that the first signs of hiccups in Facebook's operation appeared a little earlier.
Facebook unavailability chart on DownDetector. A graph showing the number of Facebook outage reports on DownDetector. The problem in the operation of the application began to worsen with every minute, and after fifteen minutes there were already over 190,000 such reports. At the same time, reports for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp also began to appear. Taking into account the fact that Facebook and other platforms are by far the most popular on the Polish market, the discussion about problems in their operation moved to places that were currently operating: news portals and X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok (in the form of viral videos ). How did the failure of the entire Meta manifest itself? In the case of Facebook, users were simply logged out and any attempt to access the account ended in failure with an incorrect password message. The other apps simply didn't work.
Table of Contents Hide 1. Facebook logged out users, or what happened Find Your Phone Number on March 5? 2. Facebook not working? Follow these 5 simple steps 3. What not to do when Facebook, Instagram or Messenger stops working? 4. I can't log in to Facebook and Instagram and I run a business on social media - what should I do about it? Facebook logged out users, or what happened on March 5? The first information from people who had problems with the operation of the application appeared around 4:00 p.m. At least that's what the chart on the popular DownDetector website indicates . It is worth knowing that the website itself is not an official place for companies to communicate about the unavailability of services - it works only based on simple reports from users. So it is possible that the first signs of hiccups in Facebook's operation appeared a little earlier.
Facebook unavailability chart on DownDetector. A graph showing the number of Facebook outage reports on DownDetector. The problem in the operation of the application began to worsen with every minute, and after fifteen minutes there were already over 190,000 such reports. At the same time, reports for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp also began to appear. Taking into account the fact that Facebook and other platforms are by far the most popular on the Polish market, the discussion about problems in their operation moved to places that were currently operating: news portals and X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok (in the form of viral videos ). How did the failure of the entire Meta manifest itself? In the case of Facebook, users were simply logged out and any attempt to access the account ended in failure with an incorrect password message. The other apps simply didn't work.