Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram users experienced a second outage just days after a massive outage caused similarly on Friday.
Facebook and its applications Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger were down worldwide as its uses faced problems accessing services for hours.
In India, both Instagram and Facebook were working fine except for few users facing issues with posting photos on the platform. Hours later, the services have been restored.
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The outage happened around 12 am (IST), according to downdetector, a portal that detects outages on websites. The company said that a “configuration change” had impacted users globally.
Instagram service has been fixed around 2.30 am Indian Standard Time (IST).
Facebook, in a Tweet, announced, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products”. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
After two hours later, the company said that it had fixed the problem. “We’re so sorry if you weren’t able to access our products during the last couple of hours,” the company said in a statement on Friday evening. “We know how much you depend on us to communicate with one another. We fixed the issue – thanks again for your patience this week.”
In one of the major outages so far, hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday. An internal technical issue was the major outage that affected the firm’s services and employees’ work passes and email. The services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.
