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Social media platforms Facebook and Instagram were once again down on Friday night. On this outage, the company said that both these platforms were down due to a technical fault in the computing platform. Because of this many users had to face problems. This is the second chance of a Facebook outage within 5 days. Earlier on the night of 4 October, Instagram and WhatsApp along with Facebook were down for more than 6 hours.
This time the effect of the Facebook outage did not happen in India. The countries where Facebook and Instagram were down included the US, UK, Poland and parts of Germany. The #instagramdownagain hashtag also started trending on Twitter after the server was down.
Facebook and Instagram were down at 12:11 pm Indian time. During this, Instagram users were finding it difficult to refresh the feed. Along with this, problems were being faced in uploading photos.
Facebook apologizes
Facebook has apologized for the second outage within a week. Facebook apologized at 2:47 pm, saying that some people are having problems accessing our apps and website. We are sorry if you are unable to use our service. We know how dependent you are on us to communicate with each other. Now we have solved the problem. Thanks again for keeping your patience this time too.
Here Instagram also apologized to its users and wrote that some of you must be having some problem in using Instagram right now. we are so sorry. Things have settled down and everything should be back to normal now. Thank you for cooperating with us.
Had apologized 4 days ago too
WhatsApp and Instagram were shut down along with Facebook when the Facebook outage happened earlier in the week. The problem of outage persisted even after several hours, in such a situation people were neither able to send nor receive messages. This problem came due to the company’s server being down. According to outage tracking company Downdetector.com, 10.6 million users worldwide had filed complaints about the shutdown of services. In such a situation, Facebook wrote apologizing …
Some people are having trouble using the app. We apologize for this. Soon this problem will be fixed. At the same time, in a statement issued by WhatsApp on social media, it was said that we know that some people are facing problems at this time. thank you for your patience.
7 crore users connected with Telegram
On October 5, 7 crore users joined the Telegram app. The Facebook outage was the main reason behind this huge success of Telegram. Actually, on the same day in the evening, WhatsApp and Instagram, including Facebook, were stalled. which remained closed for more than 6 hours. Telegram benefited from the closure of these platforms. The number of monthly active users on Telegram has crossed 500 million (500 million).
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