Facebook and Instagram Experience Brief, Widespread Outage
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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Facebook and its Instagram service experienced a widespread outage for about 40 minutes early Tuesday.
The social media company said the outage affected customers in the U.S., Asia and Australia.
In a statement to ABC News, a Facebook spokesperson said, “Earlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.”
Facebook has approximately 1.25 billion users and Instagram has about 300 million.
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