Facebook reveals the cause of the fall on whatsapp and instagram

This past Wednesday was not the best day for Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram. All three platforms had a crash, which caused them to not work or to run into many problems all day. Although the cause that caused this fall was not known. Luckily, the social network itself has been in charge of confirming the reason for this fall in them.

Facebook reveals the cause of the fall on WhatsApp and Instagram

As they have confirmed in a message on Twitter, this is a change in the configuration of some of their servers. It was what caused that these platforms could not be used.

Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services. We've now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We're very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone's patience.

- Facebook (@facebook) March 14, 2019

Facebook explains the reasons

Due to this failure, which affected multiple countries in Europe, America and Asia, users could not enter Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp. If they had the possibility to enter, the performance of these platforms was not good. In many cases it was not possible to do anything, or the loading was partially or directly very slow. The degree of error has been variable depending on the country, as has been known.

There were many rumors in the first hours about the origin of the problem. Since it was also considered that it was a DDoS attack. Although finally this is something that had to be denied by the company. Finally, they have already arrived with statements.

For now, Facebook has returned to normal operations, as well as WhatsApp and Instagram. Therefore, the accounts can be accessed again as normal at all times. And we already have the official explanation of the company.

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