Facebook and Instagram not working
Since early in the morning two of the social networks most important and massive have stopped providing their services to everyone. We are talking about Facebook and Instagram, but the social alarm should not go off yet. It is a service outage A failure that will be resolved shortly, but which keeps users waiting to see the pictures of the people you follow, or stay in touch and see the posts of your friends' walls.
Thus, for several minutes and while these lines are being written, the social network with the most users in the world, Facebook, and the most widespread photography social network, Instagram, remain unable to consult news or use their servicesWith this, users cannot publish photographs, or upload content. In fact, it's barely possible to access applications to see posts loaded since the last time they were accessed.
At the moment the official account of Instagram on Twitter has already published a message informing that they are aware of the problem and working on a solution Hopefully this will arrive in just a few minutes. And it is that Facebook does not usually suffer this type of problem for long periods of time. An issue that is still unknown to what may be due, but that is affecting a greater number of users due to their relationships with other services and applications.
And the user account of Facebook is often used through other applications to sign in and access their services. This is the case of the application Tinder, well known by those who want to flirt or meet other people. Or even Bitstrip, which allows you to create all sorts of fun custom bullets Services that have stopped function and that they are collateral victims of this system crash of the networks of Facebook and, therefore, of Instagram , which also belongs to the company of Mark Zuckerberg
However, WhatsApp users can breathe easy. At least for now. The messaging application remains functioning normally, without being blocked from sending messages.And we must not forget that WhatsApp was also acquired by Facebook, although it seems to work through its own system and infrastructure, thus avoiding the crash, despite the fact that this application is prone to eventual failures.
Update:
As expected, and barely an hour after of the failure being detected, the services of these social networks have recovered their normal operation In the same way, the rest of the tools that use the user account of Facebook to access they have also begun to provide service. Just close applications and start them again if they continue to have problems.
This is the first significant drop in services of the year, although, fortunately, it will go unnoticed by many. A simple moment of crisis at the beginning of the day and not being able to consult the publications of the social networks favorites of the moment.And you Have you had problems with Facebook, Instagram or any of the applications related to these services?
Update 2: Some media like TechCrunch echo that this service outage could well have been an attack by the hacker group Lizard Squad, who made Christmas bitter for millions of players PS4 and Xbox One after throwing their online services to the ground during these days. A DDOS or denial-of-service attack that has allegedly managed to bring down the connections of Facebookand Instagram for about 50 minutes this morning.
Update 3: According to statements by a Facebook spokesperson to The Verge , it is confirmed that the failure suffered by these social networks is due to a change introduced by the company that has affected its systemIn addition, completely rejects that it was due to an attack by the group Lizard Squad, who would have tried to take responsibility for the fall of Facebook and Instagram initially.
