the fall of facebook has been the most serious in all history

The US multinational Facebook said today that the partial "fall" of its functions recorded on Wednesday and that also affected Instagram and WhatsApp (both of its property) lasted 22 hours, which makes it one of the longest in the history of the company.}

In a statement addressed to the developers, the firm led by Mark Zuckerberg explained that the blockade began at 16.00 GMT on Wednesday (in the morning of America and the evening in Europe) and lasted for almost a whole day, still active for both during part of Thursday.


The company also said it had solved all the problems on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, although some users complained on social networks on Thursday that their accounts still did not work normally.


#FacebookDown 

Although it is not uncommon for these platforms to suffer partial or total "drops" in their functionalities, what is unusual is that they last for so long and, for example, the last recorded in Facebook and Instagram last November lasted so long Only 40 minutes.


During lockout hours, the Menlo Park (California) company turned to one of its biggest rivals, Twitter, to communicate with users through its official account on the blue bird platform.


"We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible," the company said in a tweet, and the #FacebookDown label became a trend.

Many scandals
At the moment, Facebook has not identified what is the cause of the "fall" of their systems, but it has ruled out that it is a DDoS computer attack, which means that hackers saturate a web destination with false traffic. they thus prevent access to other Internet users.

The company of Zuckerberg has been splashed by multitude of scandals relative to the management of the privacy of the data of the users during the last months, that have marred considerably his public image.