March 14 (UPI) — Users of Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp apps reported problems with posting and updating their social media accounts Wednesday as the tech giant suffered one of the biggest service interruptions in its history.
Facebook notified users that its services were having difficulties through its Twitter account Wednesday. However, by Thursday morning, the issue appeared to be largely resolved, as the official Instagram account on Twitter said, “Anddddd… we’re back.”
At about 10:45 a.m. Thursday, outrage-tracking website DownDetector.com showed a steep drop in reports of Facebook problems between Wednesday and Thursday morning.
No cause has been given but Facebook confirmed it wasn’t a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack.
Facebook had a similar outage in 2008 when it had 150 million users. Now, it has 2.3 billion. In November, Facebook had a brief 40-minute outage.
With Facebook down, another messaging platform, Telegram, had a surge of new signups, Tech Crunch reported.
“I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours,” founder Pavel Durov said. “We have true privacy and unlimited space for everyone.”
Telegram passed 200 million active users last year.
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