Facebook Explains And Says Sorry For Unprecedented Outage
‘To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,’ Facebook engineering said in the statement.‘We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.’ The social media giant posted a statement to Twitter at 11.31pm, thanking millions of users impacted by the unprecedented outage which lasted around six hours ‘for bearing with us’.Facebook blamed a ‘faulty configuration change’ for the problem, which hit multiple platforms used by well over a billion people right around the world and lasted far longer than many previous outages. Facebook’s share price plummeted 4.9% amid the outage, which also came the day after a whistleblower claimed in a US interview that the company prioritises its own interests over the public good. The network problems had begun at around 4.30pm, when outage monitor Downdetector received almost 150,000 reports in just