Facebook on Wednesday suffered one of the worst falls in service of its history after having left some of its functions to be operational in several parts of the world.
The failure also affected Instagram and WhatsApp, both owned by the company of Mark Zuckerberg messaging app.
According to the website DownDetector, failures affected users in countries like United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Spain, among others.
It is estimated that the problems began around 16:00 GMT on Wednesday.
“We are aware that some people are having problems accessing the Facebook family apps “, published the company on his Twitter account on Wednesday afternoon.
“We are working to resolve the problem as soon as possible,” agregosin offer more detail.
It is unknown why the platforms ceased to function properly, but Facebook ruled out that it is “a denial of service attack”.
This type of attack, known as DDoS, consist of the attacker blocked the access of users to the platform in question.
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The last time that Facebook had a fall of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150 million users, compared with 2,300 millions of users that has now.
Unlike other occasions, Wednesday was not a complete block, but that many affected users could still access applications even though not all of its functions were available.
On Facebook, some options like sending messages, sharing content, or posting comments stopped normally.
Instagram, users identified problems when publishing pictures and stories in your accounts. Whatsapp, meanwhile, detected problems in sending messages and images.
Instagram is also working with problems. The problems of Facebook the incident occurs at a delicate moment for Facebook, wrapped in controversies related to the use of the private data of its users.
One of the most talked-about occurred in March of 2018, when it was unveiled that the Cambridge Analytica company used an application for recopilarmillones of data from users of the social network without your consent and political purposes.
In October of last year, Facebook admitted that hackers had stolen data from 30 million accounts.
After the fall of the Facebook service, users turned to Twitter to share their reactions, many of them in a tone of humor and accompanied by dememes.
The label #FacebookDown (fallen Facebook) and the words “Facebook” and “Instagram” positioned between global Twitter trends.
