Hour 2: Facebook, Insta-Gram, and Snap Chat are down.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, let me see. Yeah, this is very serious, very serious. Facebook and Instagram are down, |
| 0:09.5 | uh, worldwide outage. Facebook, uh, nobody really uses that much anymore. Instagram outage, |
| 0:16.5 | this is big. This is very big. Now, this is meta. That's Facebook owns Instagram, and they call the company meta because remember they were |
| 0:25.3 | going to dominate the metaverse until they found out the metaverse isn't going anyplace. |
| 0:30.8 | So, but they haven't changed the name back yet. |
| 0:33.4 | Now, here's the thing. |
| 0:35.8 | It's meta's platforms are down. |
| 0:38.5 | So that's Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. |
| 0:42.0 | Threads is their copy of Twitter. |
| 0:44.8 | We could live without threads. |
| 0:46.0 | But Instagram, we need this back. |
| 0:47.5 | It's been out since about 10 a.m. |
| 0:51.9 | Nobody knows. |
| 0:52.8 | No word on what could be causing this it's a worldwide outage |
| 0:58.1 | uh they say they're working on this now a meta spokesman said uh and the funniest thing |
| 1:04.5 | to reach people the meta spokesman had to post it on twitter on x uh now the last last time something like this happened was about three years ago. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, in 2021, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down, and that lasted more than six hours. |
| 1:22.3 | At the time, Meta said the outage was caused by configuration changes on backbone routers. |
| 1:34.1 | Now, does anybody believe that? |
| 1:36.3 | Is that really what it is? |
| 1:37.6 | You know, that's like the car mechanic |
| 1:39.3 | when he wants to charge you a fortune. |
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