Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, faced a significant outage on Tuesday, leading to disruptions in accessing its services. In response to the outage, a Meta spokesperson acknowledged the issue and assured users that they were working on resolving it.
With Meta's own servers down, the company resorted to using a rival platform, X, to communicate the news to its users. This move drew attention from Elon Musk, the CEO of X, who took the opportunity to mock Meta through a series of posts on the platform.
During the outage, many users reported difficulties logging into their Facebook and Instagram accounts. Meta's platform status page confirmed 'major disruptions' to Facebook logins during the incident.
Following the outage, Meta's spokesperson issued a statement indicating that the technical issue had been resolved promptly. The company apologized for any inconvenience caused to its users.
The strained relationship between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk has been evident, particularly since the launch of Meta's Threads, a direct competitor to X. Both tech moguls have engaged in public jibes and mockery of each other's platforms.
Despite the outage and subsequent resolution, representatives for Meta did not provide further comments when approached by Business Insider.
