On Friday, Facebook struggled with technical problems for the second time within a week. Some users had problems accessing apps and services from the group, as Facebook admitted on Twitter. With platforms like Downdetector, users again reported problems with the entire range of Facebook apps: with the online network itself, the WhatsApp and Messenger chat services and the Instagram photo platform. The fault was resolved after a few hours.
It was not until Monday that all Facebook services went offline for around six hours in an unprecedented outage. Facebook explained the malfunction with a configuration error. On Friday, the extent of the outages was significantly more limited – the services were not disrupted for everyone.
Facebook apologizes to its users for the two-hour interruption and blames an incorrect configuration change for the second global outage. “We fixed the problem, everything should work normally again now.”