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Official update: "Facebook and Instagram experienced a major outage tonight from 22:10 until 23:10 PST. Our engineers identified the cause of the outage and recovered the site quickly. You should now see decreasing error rates while our systems stabilize. We don't expect any other break in service. I'll post another update within 30 mins. Thank you for your patience." https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/39399836411226...

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"The issue was resolved at 23:10 PST and the site stabilized shortly afterwards. Our internal and external monitoring shows that API requests are being served with normal latency and error rates, in all geographic regions. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you and the users of your apps."

No hints there, guess we'll just have to wait for a full post-mortem to come out.

"This was not the result of a third-party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems."

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