Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger go down for some users for the second time in a week
Facebook and Instagram go down for some users – just days after seven-hour blackout caused by servers going down
Instagram, Facebook & Facebook have gone down for the second time this week The Friday outage occurs just days after the social networking giant bundled a server update that led to a global outage for more than seven hours
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Instagram, Facebook and Messenger have gone down for some users for the second time in a week.
The Friday outage occurs just days after the social networking giant bungled a server update that led to a global outage for more than seven hours.
According to Down Detector, which tracks whether internet services are functioning normally, more than 30,000 people reported an Instagram outage just shortly after 2 p.m. EST.
A smaller number of people reported a Facebook outage, though the reports came also came in at 2 p.m. EST.
Facebook Messenger did not appear to be as widely affected, with slightly more than 800 people reporting outages.
Instagram, Facebook & Facebook have gone down for the second time this week
According to Down Detector, more than 30,000 people reported an Instagram outage just shortly after 2 p.m. EST.
A smaller number of people reported a Facebook outage, approximately 3,000, though the reports came also came in at 2 p.m. EST
Facebook Messenger did not appear to be as widely affected, with slightly more than 800 people reporting outages
DailyMail.com has reached out to Facebook and Instagram with a request for comment.
The outage occurs four days after Facebook suffered an error during a routine maintenance on its network of data centers that caused a global collapse.
It blocked access to apps for billions of users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, further intensifying weeks of scrutiny for the nearly $1 trillion company.
In a blog post apologizing for the outage, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s Vice President of Engineering and Infrastructure, said the collapse also impacted many of Facebook’s internal tools and systems that it uses in its day-to-day operations, making it harder to solve the issue.
‘Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,’ Janardhan wrote in the blog post.
‘This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.’
