Desk Report
Published: 09 Oct 2021, 01:17 pm
Facebook Apologizes as Services including Instagram Hit Again || Photo: Collected
Facebook has apologized after again reporting
problems with its services, days after a major outage hit WhatsApp, Instagram
and Facebook for hours.
The company said that a
"configuration change" had impacted users globally.
It added that the incident
was not related to the outage that saw its products taken offline for over six
hours earlier this week.
Its Facebook, Instagram,
Messenger and Workplace products had been affected, it said.
"We're so sorry if you
weren't able to access our products during the last couple of hours," the
company said it 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."
Earlier, web monitoring
group Downdetector said that for a relatively short period of time on Friday
there was an avalanche of messages from users reporting problems with
Instagram.
Some of them immediately
took to Twitter and other social media platforms to complain about the second
Instagram disruption and share memes on the issue.
On Monday, Facebook - which
owns WhatsApp and Instagram - blamed an internal technical issue for the major
outage which not only affected the firm's services, but also employees' work
passes and email.
The services were down from
about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.