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Facebook restores services after massive outage

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 15 Apr 2019

Facebook, the world's biggest social media platform, has restored services on its social networking platform, as well as Instagram and WhatsApp, after a massive outage over the weekend.

Although Facebook did not provide details on what caused the blackout, a Facebook spokesperson told Reuters: "Earlier today, some people may have experienced trouble connecting to the family of apps. The issue has since been resolved; we're sorry for any inconvenience."

It is also not clear how many users were impacted by the outage, but according to Downdetector.com, a Web site which monitors outages, yesterday there were more than 9 000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook.

Downdetector.com's live outage map showed the issues mainly cropped up in Europe and Asia.

It adds there were more than 3 000 incidents of people reporting issues with messaging app WhatsApp and over 7 000 with photo-sharing platform Instagram.

Last month, Facebook's apps, including Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, went down for nearly a whole day throughout North America and Europe. Facebook said the outage was due to a "server configuration change".

In January, the Instagram app crashed while WhatsApp users worldwide were unable to send or receive messages.

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