Facebook and Instagram back up with company saying outages are not linked
Outage Earlier Not The The Week Occurred Confirmed That Related One That Was To This Engineers
Facebook and Instagram are back online after the social media services suffered an outage on Friday evening.
It is the second time this week that the two services were hit with an outage after Monday saw the sites go down for hours.
A Facebook company spokesperson said that the engineering team confirmed that the outage is fixed and "we’re back to 100%".
"Sincere apologies to anyone who wasn’t able to access our products in the last couple of hours. We fixed the issue, and everything should be back to normal now.
Engineers confirmed that the outage was not related to the one that occurred earlier this week.
Friday's outage was caused by "a configuration change and it impacted people globally".
The company confirmed that Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Workplace were all impacted.
Instagram tweeted to confirm that "things have been fixed, and everything should be back to normal now."
It also joked: "Thank you for bearing with us (and for all the memes this week)."
things have been fixed, and everything should be back to normal now. thank you for bearing with us (and for all the memes this week 🙃)
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 8, 2021
People started to report issues with the service at around 8pm on Friday and Facebook and Instagram confirmed through Twitter that they were aware of an issue.
Facebook tweeted: “We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Instagram followed suit shortly after saying: "We know some of you may be having some issues using Instagram right now. We’re so sorry and are working as quickly as possible to fix," the company said in a tweet.
According to DownDetector.ie, a site that tracks reported outages, more than 2,000 people reported that Instagram was down shortly before 8pm.
The site also reported around 2,000 people reported being unable to access Facebook at around 8pm on Friday.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went offline on Monday for more than five hours in a major outage.
The company said it was caused by an error during a routine maintenance job.
Billions of the platforms’ users had been left unable to get online on Monday by the fault, which the company said was “an outage caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making”