Another Instagram outage caps off Facebook’s very bad week [Update]

Instagram seems to celebrate the weekend with some sporadic downtime, with users reporting the problem of loading photos and new videos in the application on Friday afternoon. The problem comes only a few days after a large Facebook blackout that stretches various social networking properties.

It looks at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus service down on Monday, 4. October. Blackouts lasts for about six hours in total.

Today’s Instagram disorder doesn’t seem anywhere on the scale, even though they are proven to have frustrated. As on Monday, some users report see error messages “can’t load feedback” when they try to load new content on their timeline. Others can finally load the application, even though it’s very slow.

DownDetector, tools that monitor popular websites for downtime periods, strengthen problems. The Instagram government report has surged on Friday afternoon, compared to typical basic complaints.

Advanced extensive Monday blamed on damaged configuration updates, with Facebook insisted that there were no hacking or security violations involved. Conversely, the Border Gateway protocol – or BGP – which helps coordinate network traffic between the Facebook data center is incorrectly regulated. It has a wider range of range than only servers that don’t respond to users, thoughts.

Because Facebook depends on the infrastructure to control everything from sending internal messages to building access, downtime has a knock-on impact on who can pass the system that is affected – and get the right advice to really fix the problem. Facebook says it is now working on how to overcome these problems so that they are not a problem in the case of future interference.

While downtime is a reminder of how broad Facebook use, and how big people rely on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram to occupy themselves, it also comes because social networking companies see new criticism from the regulator. Facebook PR has been criticized with the handling of the Whistleblower complaint last week, trying to damage the credibility of the former product manager Frances Haugen which released the large cache of internal research data to law enforcement agencies in the US.

The data, allegations, showed that Facebook realized how potentially damaging the service could be a specialer users specifically, but the company still encouraged its products. Facebook argues that claims are baseless.