Meta’s social media giant Facebook experienced a brief outage on Thursday, affecting thousands of users globally, with the majority of reports coming from the US.

According to Downdetector , a platform that monitors service disruptions via user feedback, over 350 people flagged issues with Facebook. Around 53% of the complaints were related to the Facebook app, 24% reported that the website wasn’t working, and 22% said they faced problems logging into their accounts.

As per the outage tracking website, people across various regions in the US began experiencing problems with Facebook from around 2:00 PM (IST) onwards, with reports steadily increasing thereafter.

Users flooded rival social media platforms to confirm the outage, sharing both reports and a wave of humorous memes, check them out.

A user on X joked, “When I saw this error I thought my Facebook and Instagram got hacked, before I noticed that #Facebook in general is down”.

So far, Meta has not issued any official statement addressing the cause of the global Facebook outage. The tech giant is yet to confirm whether it was due to a technical glitch, server issues, or any other underlying problem. While users in the US and several other countries reported difficulties accessing the platform, Facebook services in India appear to be running smoothly without any noticeable disruptions. Many affected users took to other social media platforms, such as X to share their frustration and seek answers, but the company has remained silent on the matter.

The disruption appears to be far from over, as outage reports continue to climb. According to Downdetector, the number of users flagging issues with Facebook has risen from around 350 earlier to over 450 at the time of writing. This steady increase suggests that the problem may be spreading or affecting more users over time. (Times Now)

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There are reports of an IT outage affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

According to ABC News, it is experiencing a major network outage, along with several other media outlets.

Crowd-sourced website Downdetector is listing outages for Foxtel, National Australia Bank and Bendigo Bank. 

Earlier on Friday, Microsoft (MSFT.O) said its cloud services outage in the Central U.S. region was resolved after it led to the grounding and cancellation of several flights.

According to Reuters, low-cost carriers Frontier Airlines, a unit of Frontier Group Holdings (ULCC.O), Allegiant and SunCountry (SNCY.O) had reported outages that affected operations.  

Frontier said earlier that a “major Microsoft technical outage” hit its operations temporarily, while SunCountry said a third-party vendor affected its booking and check-in facilities, without naming the company.

“The Allegiant website is currently unavailable due to the Microsoft Azure issue,” Nevada-based Allegiant said in a statement to CNN. Allegiant did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for a comment.

Frontier cancelled 147 flights on Thursday and delayed 212 others, according to data tracker FlightAware. 45% of Allegiant aircrafts were delayed, while Sun Country delayed 23% flights, the data showed. The companies did not give details on the number of flights impacted.

Microsoft said its outage started at about 6 pm ET on Thursday, with a subset of its customers experiencing issues with multiple Azure services in the Central U.S. region. Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides services for building, deploying, and managing applications and services.

Separately, Microsoft said it was investigating an issue impacting various Microsoft 365 apps and services. (Reuters /ABC News)

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