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Facebook, Tinder, Instagram and others were unavailable for 40 minutes after an apparent outage at Facebook's HQ cascaded to other networks
Multiple major social networks went down on Tuesday morning, including Facebook, Tinder, Instagram, AOL Instant Messenger, and Hipchat.
The cause of the suspension, which began around 6:20am GMT and ended about 50 minutes later, was an apparent outage at Facebook's HQ which cascaded to other networks that use Facebook to authenticate users
Facebook told the Guardian: "Earlier today many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occured 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."
The outage hit both the websites and apps of the affected services all around the world. Facebook-owned Instagram returned a "can't refresh feed" error, while the Facebook website itself simply failed to resolve in the browser
Facebook's failure seemed to be so major that it has cascaded into apps such as Tinder that rely on the social network for login fuctionality
Not every Facebook-owned service failed. WhatsApp, acquired by Mark Zukerberg's company in Feburary 2014, remained functional
Hacker group Lizard Squad - which attacked PlayStation and Xbox Live networks at Christmas - had tweeted the outages and were incorrectly reported as the cause by some media outlets
The group's tweets stopped short of specifically claiming credit for the failures.
The last major outage to affect Facebook occured in June last year, where a similar technical issue took the site offline for more than 30 minutes. Publishers, among others, saw referral traffic from Facebook fall off a cliff - a similar but greater affect is expected from today's outage
a similar but greater affect is expected from today's outage
saw referral traffic from Facebook fall off a cliff
took the site offline for more than 30 minutes
the last major outage to affect Facebook occured i June last year
stopped short of specifically claiming credit for the failures
were incorrectly reported as the cause by some media outlets
had tweeted the outages and were incorrectly reported as the cause by some media outlets
remained functional
acquired by Mark Zukerburg's company
rely on the social network for login functionality
seemsed to be so major that it has cascaded into apps such as Tinder
simply failed to resolve in the browser
of the affected services all around the world
the outage hit both the websites
are back to 100% for everyone
moved quickly to fix the problem
instead occured after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems
was not the result of a third party attack
had trouble accessing Facebook
cascaded to other networks that use Facebook to authenticate users
was an apparent outage at Facebook's HQ
began around 6:20 am GMT and ended about 50 minutes later
the cause of the suspension
went down on Tuesday morning
cascaded to other networks
were unavailable for 40 minutes after an apparent outage at Facebook's HQ cascaded to other networks