Facebook Is Blaming a Server Configuration Change for Its Lengthy Outage

The social network said it was not the victim of a distributed denial-of-service attack

Nearly 24 hours after the first reports of massive outages for Facebook and its family of applications, the social network finally gave the all-clear and provided an explanation for the issues.

The company said in a tweet, “Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services. We’ve now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience.”

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