Facebook Explains Reason for Major Outage That Also Affected Instagram

Were you having problem accessing Facebook or Instagram last night and early today? Facebook has confirmed that users could not access the social network completely for several hours due to a server configuration fault.

After Facebook Messenger went down earlier this week, this is the 2nd case of widespread outage related to the company, which is caught up in tons of controversy lately.

Earlier today a issues in our server acquired some people to have problem accessing our apps. The issue has since been resolved – nosotros're back to 100% for everyone – and we're pitiful for the inconvenience.

— Facebook (@Facebook) November 21, 2018

"Earlier today, a server configuration caused intermittent problems across all apps globally, creating a degraded experience for users," a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as proverb by AFP.

Equally seen on Downdetector, the outage map showed that most regions in the earth had problem accessing Facebook and Instagram. The outage hit users in Northward America, Europe, and Asia. At its peak, the website had over 4000 user reports per hour near the outage, which just goes to show how widespread the issue was. 29 percentage of the reports spoke of a total coma, but a bulk of users had problem accessing photos, which could be linked to Instagram too.

On Instagram, over half the number of complaints were to practice with a non-responsive News Feed. The feed refused to load for us besides, when nosotros checked last dark.

The outage began effectually early morning time in the U.s., and lasted well into the afternoon there. Due to the time difference, not many users in Asia reported the outage, even though nosotros could non admission Instagram for some time terminal evening. The hashtag #FacebookDown was trending on Twitter, and Facebook was taking reports and responding on Twitter to user complaints.