Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back up after another global outage

Facebook Inc said services on its platforms including Instagram and Whatsapp had been fully restored after thousands of users reported connectivity issues for more than an hour.

“A configuration change caused Facebook services to be unavailable to some people. We quickly investigated and resolved the issue,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.

Earlier on Thursday, more than 154,100 outage reports on Facebook, 80,200 on Instagram and 1,300 on Whatsapp were reported on outage tracking website Downdetector.com. InstagramDown is also trending on Twitter. The app’s official Twitter handle also posted about the issue, noting ” We know some people are having issues right now.