According to reports, with its four major social products, Facebook Inc. has become the undisputed “social giant” in the world. However, on March 19 (Saturday morning Beijing Time), Facebook (290.11,11.49,4.12%) experienced an outage in its services.
The service reportedly affected Facebook’s four major social products, including the Facebook platform, mobile chat services Messenger and WhatsApp, and photo social service Instagram.
A Facebook Inc. spokeswoman said in a statement that some technical issues caused users to have trouble accessing certain Facebook services earlier Friday, “We resolved the issue for all users and apologize for the resulting inconvenience.”
As for what technical problems caused the service outage, Facebook did not elaborate.
It is reported that the outage began at 1:30 p.m. EST on Friday (2:30 a.m. GMT on Saturday) and lasted for about an hour, after which the problem was resolved.
Down Detector, an organization specializing in monitoring Internet services, also found that Facebook’s social networking services were experiencing outages. For Instagram alone, there were 100,000 reports of disruptions worldwide.
Each of Facebook’s four social services has more than a billion active users. The data shows that the company has as many as 3.3 billion total users worldwide (one user will use multiple Facebook products), or about half the population of the planet.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook last year to spin off the company’s past acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp services, and the lawsuit is ongoing.
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