A mass outage of social media sites Facebook and Instagram was the result of a server configuration change. SCREENSHOT Users were seeing blank screens when trying to access Facebook on Thursday. On Friday morning, about 24 hours after the outage began, Facebook, which owns Instagram, took to Twitter to say the worldwide problem was the result of a server configuration change. READ MORE:* Facebook and Instagram back after 10-hour outage* Outage hits Gmail users around world* Facebook takes blame for outages, including Instagram"People had trouble accessing our apps and services," Facebook said. BBC News reported it was the most severe outage Facebook had ever had.

Source: Stuff March 14, 2019 18:00 UTC