Bad week for Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook, Instagram and Messenger services experienced disruption on Friday night, four days after Monday’s massive global blackout. After a little less than two hours, Facebook announced that everything was back to normal, after a “configuration” problem, the company told New York Times.
We’re so sorry if you weren’t able to access our products during the last couple of hours. We know how much you depend on us to communicate with one another. We fixed the issue – thanks again for your patience this week.
– Facebook (@Facebook) October 8, 2021
“We are aware that some people and businesses have difficulty accessing Facebook products. We work so that things are getting back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience, ”the company apologized at 9:22 pm (Paris time).
🔴Facebook, Instagram and Messenger partially stranded, 4 days after Monday’s mega blackout, um (no WhatsApp message for now) In Los Angeles, for now, it seems to be working #facebookdown #instagramdown #Messengerdown #whats pic.twitter.com/gXHmsdA6pr
– Philippe Berry (@ptiberry) October 8, 2021
I confirm: I struggled to post a photo; she was not charging
– Jeremiah 🤓 (@jrmiejak) October 8, 2021
#Facebook and #instagram down again. Cue some idiots phoning the police 🤬. Yes, here in the UK, some actually phoned the police during the last outage 🤔
– DAYS OF HORROR PODCAST ⸸ (@dohpods) October 8, 2021
Monday, all the group’s services, from WhatsApp to Instagram via Messenger and Oculus, had remained inaccessible for almost seven hours. This outage, Facebook explained the next day, was caused by a group error during routine operations on its main routers, which accidentally disabled the routes that direct Internet traffic to its data centers.