Facebook, Instagram explain massive outage, apologize for inconvenience

Facebook has recently provided an explanation regarding yesterday’s super-obnoxious social media outage. The Facebook family of apps, including Instagram, were down for nearly 14 hours, according to CNN. The outage caused uproar on one of the only working social media sites, Twitter.

That said, when the social networking sites were finally back in business, they took to Twitter to share the news with their followers.

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While Facebook ruled out the possibility of a DDoS attack yesterday, the social media site has since proposed another potential reasoning.

“We made a server configuration change that triggered a cascading series of issues,” Facebook says in a story with USA Today. “As a result, many people had difficulty accessing our apps and services. Our systems have been recovering over the last few hours.”

Additionally, the network tweeted a similar statement earlier today, apologizing for the inconvenience.

However, the social media platform did not elaborate on what kind of server configuration change they went through.

Yesterday, there were many reports of people being unable to access certain apps across the social media platforms. For example, many people had trouble posting and seeing Instagram Stories as well as sending and receiving direct messages.

Additionally, many users could not post anything to Facebook or even got “error” messages.

What did you do instead of going on social media yesterday? Sound off in the comments below.

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