Facebook revealed the reason for its downfall which also affected Instagram and WhatsApp

After keeping users suspended for several hours, Facebook finally revealed the reasons for its downfall on Wednesday afternoon, which also affected Instagram and WhatsApp.

Unusually, the world's most popular social network once again used its @facebook profile on Twitter as a channel to provide details of the failure that caused the service to drop for nearly 10 hours.

"Yesterday, we changed the configuration of the server, which caused a series of cascading problems, and as a result, many people had difficulty accessing our applications and services, we solved the problems and our systems were have been reinstated in the past few hours, we regret the inconvenience and we appreciate the patience of all ", justified by Mark Zuckerberg's trench.

Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people have had difficulty accessing our applications and services. We have now solved the problems and our systems are being recovered. We are sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone's patience.

– Facebook (@facebook) March 14, 2019

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have presented access problems for their users and malfunctions in various parts of the world, as part of a widespread and unprecedented blackout.

On Facebook, problems related to its normal use persist on the east coast of the United States, in parts of Brazil, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany, although there are has almost no complaints of dysfunction in Argentina.

On Twitter, users have been quick to publish the same effective memes to free their anger.

WhatsApp is not the only instant messenger, but the most popular, with an installed base of 1,500 million users around the world.

Telegram is a good alternative for those who need to come out of a crisis like the one that has occurred. It also offers a free chat service that has registered an increase of 3 million users in recent hours, according to company founder, Russian Pavel Durov.

Source: Los Andes