Meta's flagship social network, Facebook, is experiencing an outage that began around 21:40 UTC on March 3 Users attempting to access the platform reported being unable to log in, instead receiving an error message that read, "Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly"
In a significant development for the company's commercial operations, Meta's own business services dashboard confirmed "high disruptions" to several key revenue-generating platforms These include the Facebook Ads Manager, the Instagram Boost service, which allows users to turn posts into advertisements, and the WhatsApp Business API, a tool used for large-scale commercial messaging The impact on these monetized services makes the ongoing outage a "potentially serious incident" for Meta's business operations
While Meta does not maintain a public status page for its consumer services, the business dashboard provides the only official confirmation of the service interruptions. As of the time of reporting, other major Meta platforms such as Instagram, Threads, and the consumer version of WhatsApp appeared to be functioning normally, indicating the issue was primarily concentrated on Facebook and its integrated business tools
Mohsin Rana
