Instagram back online after outage in Pakistan, other countries
Outages were reported in Pakistan as well as other parts of the world, says Down Detector
July 15, 2022
- 73% of the outages were reported among Instagram app users, shows Down Detector data.
- 23% users faced problems while logging in to the app, says data.
- 4% of the users reported problems while uploading videos and photos, it shows.
Meta-owned photo-and-video sharing app Instagram restored functions after being down in Pakistan and across the globe for about two hours on Friday morning.
According to Down Detector, outages were reported in Pakistan as well as other parts of the world.
Data collected by the tracker showed that 73% of the outages were reported among Instagram app users, 23% users faced problems while logging in to the app, while 4% of the users reported problems while uploading videos and photos on the platform.
On Thursday evening, micro-blogging website Twitter also went offline in Pakistan and across the globe for about an hour.
WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram outage due to faulty configuration change
Last year, Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram had faced nearly six-hour long outage worldwide.
However, Face book had blamed a "faulty configuration change" for the outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
Several Facebook employees who declined to be named had told Reuters earlier that they believed that the outage was caused by an internal mistake in how internet traffic is routed to its systems.
The failures of internal communication tools and other resources that depend on that same network in order to work compounded the error, the employees had said. Security experts had said an inadvertent mistake or sabotage by an insider were both plausible.
