The popular social network Facebook, as well as Instagram, went down in some areas last night, leaving thousands of users offline.
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Users reported problems on the two largest social networks in the world.
Facebook began experiencing issues around 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone), with issues appearing on both Facebook itself and Facebook-owned sites, such as Messenger and Instagram, in various regions around the world, according to Downdetector.com.
A message that appeared to many users said: “We’re sorry, something went wrong,” and in the app under news and groups, a message said that pages were unavailable and that “this may be due to a technical error that we’re working to fix.”
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More than 60,000 users reported experiencing problems with Facebook, while 38,000 had problems with Instagram, according to DownDetector.
However, it now appears that service on social media sites has been fully restored.
A Facebook spokesperson later said in an emailed statement : “ Earlier today, a configuration change resulted in Facebook services being unavailable to some people. We investigated and quickly resolved the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience. ”
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When both apps stopped working properly, users took to Twitter to report the issue and check if other users were experiencing the same technical issues.
A week ago, Instagram faced problems, leaving many users around the world offline due to a mysterious outage.
The majority of complaints were about news not loading properly.
However, a large number of users also warned of connection problems.
