On Tuesday morning, Meta and several other leading internet service providers experienced a massive outage.

On Tuesday morning saw reports of widespread disruptions on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The parent company Meta issued a warning about the outages affecting several of its major services.

For business products including Ads Manager, Facebook and Instagram Shops, Meta Business Suite and Meta Admin Center, as well as Facebook Login, Graph API, WhatsApp Business API, and Marketing API, a status page showing all of Meta's services as "unknown" changed to "major disruptions."

The main cause of all of the outages is the inability to access the company's services, although Meta has not yet provided any more information. An email request for further information was not immediately answered.

Widespread interruptions to Meta-provided services have been confirmed by posts on other social media platforms, such as X, which was formerly Twitter, and postings to the Outages Digest mailing list. An abundance of complaints to Downdetector.com emphasize that a significant disruption happened on Tuesday at roughly 11 AM Eastern Time.

Although reports appeared to be tapering down as of 11:45 AM Eastern, Downdetector also revealed issues with other significant internet services this morning, such as Google, YouTube, Amazon, and major cellular carriers. As of noon Eastern Time, there were no issues listed in AWS's Health Dashboard.

A status notice on Google's Workspace Status Dashboard stated that "some Gmail users are experiencing elevated error rates while performing various actions and may also see delays in email delivery," indicating that there had been service interruptions.

"Measurement challenges"

One of Meta's most recent significant outages occurred in October 2021, when the majority of its social media platforms were unavailable for more than seven hours.

In that instance, the issue was self-inflicted when, in the course of normal maintenance, a command meant to gauge the organization's capacity for its global backbone network inadvertently shut it down and disconnected all of its data centers.

In one study, researchers from Israel's Bar-Ilan University monitored a broad range of responses to the unplanned mass outage. They saw responses ranging from stress and fear of missing out (FoMO) to the so-called "joy of missing out."

The major social media networks' October 4, 2021, worldwide outage "had a significant impact on users' mood and experience," according to the experts. "The results contribute to an extensive corpus of literature exploring the connections among stress, social media intensity, and FOMO."

The outage seems to be less in duration this time. Several of Meta's tools were listed as "recovering from disruptions" on its status page as of noon Eastern, but no more information about the cause of the disruption was given.

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