A large system failure of unknown cause occurs on Facebook and Instagram

by Eduardo Woo

On July 3, 2019 (Wednesday), there were worldwide system failures that made it impossible to send and receive files such as posting and displaying images on SNS applications such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Facebook admits connection failure, and at the time of writing, all systems are restored.

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https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/33433056584853/

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/2068231/facebook-outage-image-tags-captions-ai-machine-learning-revealed

According to ' downdetector.com ', which monitors the system status of various websites, at 21:00 on July 3, 2019 Japan time, images can not be displayed on Facebook applications, or images can not be posted. Have encountered a problem.

Oh yeah! I forgot Facebook uses machine learning to tag our photos with what it sees in the picture.

Be Fair To, 'One Person, Beard' Is Pretty Much A Spot-On Description Of Me. Pic.Twitter.Com/fCpydUxtpz

— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) July 3, 2019

In addition, you can not view the image even in Instagram, which is Facebook's management body.

My Instagram feed is crazy right now! #Instagramdown pic.twitter.com/Su2t6w6UCG

— Christopher (@SlamDrop) July 3, 2019

According to the fault map released by downdetector.com, it was impossible to send and receive files on Facebook and Instagram as well as WhatsApp and Messenger. According to the fault map published by downdetector.com, Asia including North America, South America, Europe, Japan, and all over the world The fault was confirmed.

Facebook down? Current problems and status. | Downdetector
https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/map/

About an hour after the failure occurred, Facebook is aware that Twitter has experienced problems uploading and sending images, movies, etc. in some of our areas. We apologize, but we try to fix the problem as soon as possible. '

The issue has since resolved since we have been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone. We're sorry for any inconvenience.

— Facebook (@facebook) July 4, 2019

Then, at around 9: 6 on July 4, 2019 Japan time, Facebook announced the restoration of the system on Twitter.

The issue has since resolved since we have been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone. We're sorry for any inconvenience.

— Facebook (@facebook) July 4, 2019

Facebook is still investigating at the time of writing about what was the cause of the large-scale system damage that affected the whole world. In addition, Facebook had caused large-scale access failure in March 2019.

An access failure occurs on Facebook & Instagram, and the disconnection state continues for more than 8 hours-GIGAZINE