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Netizens are left confused after social media platforms they enjoy went down on Tuesday 5th March from around 17:30EAT. The social media platforms were down for hundreds of thousands across the global according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Even users in Uganda were the two platforms are banned by government of Uganda since 2021 and only accessed through Virtual Private Networks (VPN), users were logged out and not able to access their accounts.
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Even those who tried to reset their passwords all faced backlash and could not do so, the two platforms continue being down and inaccessible to their billions of users world wide.
Meta Spokesperson Andy Stone however via X formerly Twitter said the company was doing all efforts to restore the service to it’s users.
We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) March 5, 2024
Even Youtube was by the time of filing this story also having troubles and not working well for it’s users in particulars parts of the world. This is the second time in three years the global social media giants are facing outages world wide.