There was a crash that lasted for about 6 hours last Monday in Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp applications under its umbrella. In the statement made by the company, it was said that studies on the subject are continuing. Apologizing to its users for this situation, Facebook has made all applications online again.
Despite dozens of fake news, no one’s data was lost. Many newspapers and writers shared their apology messages on social media. However, this is not the first time Facebook has fallen into this situation. The list of grievances that the company has experienced over the years is quite extensive.
Facebook has crashed many times since its inception! So why?
Facebook’s longest outage – 2008
Facebook suffered the longest outage in its history in 2008. Users could not access the platform for about 1 day. The company explained that the outage, which affected most of its 80 million users at the time, was the result of an error.
The famous social media analysis company Pingdom reported that despite Facebook’s big problem, it was the least collapsing social media platform that year. In that year, Facebook managed to outperform competitors such as Windows Live Spaces, MySpace and LinkedIn.
Routine testing – 2018
On November 12, 2018, there was a brief outage that lasted about half an hour, which the company attributed to a routine test. The social network was down and users trying to access the site said, “Sorry, something went wrong. We are working on it and we will fix it as soon as possible,” the message was sent.
A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement that the outage was the result of routine testing. “Earlier today, a routine test resulted in users having trouble accessing all Facebook services, including WhatsApp and Instagram. We quickly investigated and restored access for everyone. We apologize for this inconvenience,” he said.
Second wave in routine testing – 2018
On November 20, 2018, it was reported that some users could not access Facebook and Instagram. While it wasn’t a general crash, it was clearly related to the routine testing that happened a week ago.
Facebook developer Marissa Hoek said the company is currently experiencing issues that could cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. He said they are investigating the issue and continuing to work on it. After a few days the problem was solved.
Server configuration change – 2019
One of Facebook’s worst outages to date has been the nearly 24-hour access problem on its various services, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. According to the company, the crash issues started gradually on March 13, 2019, due to a “server configuration change”.
This has impacted users’ access to Facebook services around the world. Although the company relaunched its services as soon as possible, problems continued to arise for a while.
Network traffic disruption – 2021
In the most recent incident, apps including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus were inaccessible for hours on October 4. “This disruption to network traffic has gradually affected the way our data centers communicate and has halted our services,” the company said.
So what do you think about these problems Facebook is experiencing? We welcome your ideas in the comments.
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