UAE- Instagram, Facebook recover after brief outage

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Social networking sites Facebook and Instagram were temporarily down on Thursday in many parts of the world for a short duration because of which users were unable to send or receive messages. A message many users saw: 'Sorry, something went wrong and on the app under news and groups, a message said the pages weren't available and that it 'maybe because of technical error that we're trying to get fixed. Both platforms were back online a little after 6:00pm (local time). 'Earlier today, a configuration change caused Facebook services to be unavailable to some people. We quickly investigated and resolved the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience, a Facebook company spokesperson told The Hill. The social media giant's products went offline last month as well, which the company chalked up to a 'technical issue. According to media reports, in January, an unknown number of users were logged out of their accounts, which Facebook said was a configuration error. In March 2019, Facebook had one of the longest outages in the company's history and was out for many users for more than 12 hours. Click/tap here to subscribe to Khaleej Times news alerts on Telegram. Article Script startMENAFN09042021000049011007ID1101888752