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The
company confirmed its social media platform, Instagram,
Messenger and Workplace were impacted by the latest outage.
"Sincere apologies to anyone who wasn't able to access our
products in the last couple of hours," the company said. "We
fixed the issue, and everything should be back to normal now."
During the latest outage, some users were unable to load their
Instagram feeds, while others were not able to send messages on
Facebook Messenger.
People swiftly took to Twitter to share memes and jokes about
the second service disruption this week. "Looks like Facebook
went to a 3-day work week. Monday and Friday shutdowns?" a
Twitter user said
Instagram thanked users for their patience and "for all the
memes this week".
On Monday, the social media giant blamed a "faulty configuration
change" for a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the
company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and
messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
The outage on Monday was the largest that web monitoring group
Downdetector had ever seen and blocked access to the apps for
billions of users, leading to a surge in usage of rival social
media and messaging apps.
Moscow officials said Monday's outage showed Russia was right to
develop its own social media networks, while EU antitrust chief
Margrethe Vestager highlighted the repercussions of relying on
just a few big players, underscoring the need for more rivals.
Both the outages piled pressure on Facebook this week after a
former employee turned whistleblower accused the company on
Sunday of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on
hate speech and misinformation.
(Reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru and Sheila Dang in
Dallas; Additional reporting by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by
Shounak Dasgupta)
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