Why did Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp go down for nine hours?

March 14, 2019

The company has recorded one of the biggest declines in its history and, for more than nine hours, its main applications have been inaccessible or have posed big problems for service.

Yesterday afternoon was chaotic for Facebook. The the company recorded one of the biggest declines in its history and, for more than nine hours, its main applications were inaccessible or posed major problems for service.

Facebook has not yet given the reasons why the service was inaccessible.

We can not remember another similar drop, so large, since 2008. At that time, the service was inactive for almost 10 hours, although it only affects the social network (because it there were no other applications), which had 150 million users.

In this sense, by number of users, It could be said that it is the fall that has affected more people in the history of the company. In addition, the service interruptions affected not only Facebook (which has 2,320 million users) but also Instagram (and its 1,000 million users) and WhatsApp (and its 1500 million users).

Unlike on other occasions, Facebook e Instagram they were not completely inaccessible. Users could access the applications, but the service was not provided normally. Send messages, view the list "I like" and other interactions received or download Stories, were tasks completely impossible to perform in Instagramwhile in Facebook so much Messenger because other functions have also been disabled.

In WhatsAppOn the other hand, users could send messages and participate in groups, but some functions, such as the ability to share files and photographs, were completely full and could not be executed.

In the face of widespread confusion, Facebook He posted two messages yesterday on his Twitter account, warning that he was working on solving the problems. The second concerned the lack of service interruption due to a denial of service (DDoS) attack, a rumor that had begun to circulate on the network a few minutes ago.

The service was only restored about nine hours after the first cuts, around 5 pm (Peninsular Spain time). At around 2 am, the service began to be restored and nowadays operates with some normalcy, although according to Down detector Small deficiencies still occur in some parts of the world, but to a much lesser extent than yesterday.

Facebook He did not rule on the decision that left him without service for more than nine hours. Your Twitter support account is silent and the reason for the error is unknown.

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