Instagram has stopped working. Numerous Facebook crash reports

• On Friday evening, Instagram users mainly reported a problem with the application (57 percent), while 21 percent. could not log into their accounts at all
• According to DownDetector, on Friday around 21 significantly increased the number of reported problems with the operation of the application. The same is the case with Facebook
• DownDetector reports that over 34,000 have reported problems with Facebook and Instagram. people within the first hour of the failure
• On Monday, October 4, there was a huge six-hour failure of the largest websites. Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp are no longer available worldwide
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“We know some of you may be having trouble using Instagram right now. We’re sorry and we’re working as soon as possible to fix it,” the Instagram team said in a Twitter post.

Facebook also referred to problems with the application. “We are aware that some people have problems accessing our applications and products. We are working to get everything back to normal as soon as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience,” they wrote on Twitter.

According to DownDetector, on Friday around 21 significantly increased the number of reported problems with the operation of the application. The same is the case with Facebook.

Many hours of failure of the largest websites

On Monday, October 4, there was a huge failure of the largest websites. It started around 5:40 PM Polish time, when Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp stopped being available worldwide. Services began to return to functionality around midnight, although problems with WhatsApp lasted longer than in the case of others.

Facebook Inc. reported in a blog post that after a six-hour failure of company-owned platforms such as Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram, there was a constant “misconfiguration”. On Monday, there were about 3.5 billion users without access to social media.

According to the Downdetector network monitoring program, Facebook is the biggest crash it has ever experienced.

Facebook problems

Monday’s failure occurred at a difficult time for the Californian company. In recent weeks, the Wall Street Journal has published a series of articles based on information from former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, accusing the company of knowing, inter alia, about the harmful effects of Instagram on children. According to Haugen, Facebook has remained unresponsive for a long time, although it knew its algorithms fueled disinformation and hate, and were also used by drug cartels and female traffickers.

As reported by Bloomberg, the estimated value of the assets of the founder of the website, Mark Zuckerberg, fell by almost $ 7 billion as a result of the failure, pushing him one place in the ranking of the richest people in the world.

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Źródło: DownDetector, The Independent

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