Sorry for the disruption: Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp … – Firstpost

FP TrendingOct 07, 2021 12:03:48 ISTAfter millions of people recently faced more than 5 hours of disruption in accessing Facebook along with Whatsapp, and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology to users through social media. The Facebook CEO expressed his regret for the inconvenience and also informed users that the social media platforms are back online and working fine. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about,” Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook personal account. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Image: Getty. Meanwhile, in a separate blog post, Facebook officials revealed the root cause of this outage terming it as a faulty configuration change. Further in the post, Facebook claimed that this outage impacted many of the internal tools and systems of the company. Due to this disruption, the officials could not resolve the problem quickly as it got complicated. However, Facebook explained that the configuration changes on the routers caused issues that interrupted this communication. They further stated that this disruption had a cascading effect on the way the data centers communicate, leading to a halt…
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