Facebook & Instagram suffer outage yet again, first since rebrand to 'Meta'

In latest development, social media platforms Facebook and Instagram appear to have suffered an out yet again as users are facing difficulties in accessing ps and uploading to m, on Friday evening. This comes after aforementioned platforms along with WhatsApp (which is active this time) experienced ir longest-ever blackout last month. Several netizens took to Twitter to express ir disappointment and apps, w run under umbrella of 'Meta', are still inaccessible after almost half-an-hour. 

Earlier in October, a similar situation arose when Meta’s all three social media platforms were out for six hours, longest in ir history. company had even ackwledged disruption of its services, reason for which was disclosed later. Reports had suggested that Facebook reported a 'Domain Name System' (DNS) error on its main p which was reportedly main cause of out. social media giant had reportedly encountered a 'technical glitch' in its border gateway protocol routes, also kwn as 'BGP'. Such routes are part of internet's Domain Name System, a key structure that determines where internet traffic needs to go. 

Meanwhile, statements regarding out from any of companies have been issued yet.

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