India, Dec. 23 -- Instagram and Facebook, two of the most popular social media platforms, experienced an outage today, December 23. As usual, users quickly rushed to X, formerly Twitter, to find out if the applications were indeed down. The outage put an unprecedented halt to the users and their social lives.

In a short amount of time, Downdetector data revealed a dramatic rise in outage complaints, suggesting a general problem rather than isolated local interruptions. Users in areas of Europe, the United States, India, and other countries submitted reports indicating a worldwide service outage.

The majority of complaints on Downdetector were due to login issues, according to user-submitted data. Server connection problems and problems ...