Massive Facebook and Instagram Outage Resolved After Server Configuration Error
Facebook and Instagram experience a major global blackout affecting users across multiple countries. The social media giant blames the extended disruption on a server configuration change rather than a cyberattack.
Facebook and Instagram users around the world face significant disruptions as both platforms suffer one of the longest blackouts in the company's history. Users in the US, Brazil, Colombia, and the UK are particularly affected, with error rates spiking and API requests failing unexpectedly for several hours.
The company confirms that the outage stems from a server configuration change rather than a denial-of-service attack. Throughout the event, the entire family of apps, including WhatsApp and Messenger, remains largely inaccessible to many people trying to connect to the social network.
Engineers work through the night to implement a fix and restore normal service to the affected platforms. Facebook officially states that the issues are fully resolved, its systems are recovering, and it expresses apologies to users for the frustrating inconvenience.