Facebook has blamed a “faulty configuration change” for the app’s nearly six-hour downtime on Monday.
On Monday evening, the company’s three well-known social media sites — WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook ceased to function.
In Nigeria, users of the Facebook and Instagram apps were unable to refresh their feeds, and WhatsApp messages were unable to be sent or received.
Facebook apologized for the outages in its services in a late Monday blog post by Santosh Janardhan, the company’s infrastructure director.
“We apologize for the disruption caused by today’s outage on all of our platforms. According to the statement, “our technical teams discovered that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic across our data centers produced issues that disrupted this communication.”
As the network was restored, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, posted on his page, writing, “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are coming back up now.”
Shares of Facebook, which has almost 2 billion daily active users, plummeted by 5.5 per cent within this period, the firm’s lowest fall in 2021.
Mr Zuckerberg also lost nearly $5.9 billion in his worth during the outage.
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