Well , folks , Facebook and its “ family of apps ” has experienced yet another clank . A nice respite moving into the prospicient holiday weekend if you ask me .

problem that appear to have started early Wednesday morning were still being reported as of the afternoon , with Instagram , Facebook , WhatsApp , Oculus , and Messenger all experiencing yield . According toDownDetector , issues first started cropping up on Facebook at around 8 am ET .

“ We ’re aware that some people are having trouble upload or sending images , videos and other file on our apps . We ’re regretful for the trouble and are working to get things back to normal as rapidly as potential , ” Facebooktweetedjust after noon on Wednesday . A standardized statement was shared fromInstagram ’s Twitter write up .

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Oculus , Facebook ’s VR dimension , separatelytweetedthat it was experiencing “ issues around download computer software . ”

Facebook ’s clang was still well underway as of 1 pm ET on Wednesday , primarily affecting persona . Where user typically saw uploaded images , such as their visibility pictures or in their photo albums , they instead run into a chain of terms describing Facebook ’s interpretation of the image . Like this :

Screenshot: Gizmodo

Screenshot: Gizmodo

TechCrunch ’s Zack Whittaker noted on Twitter that all of those icon rag you may have see were Facebook ’s machine learn at work .

https://twitter.com/embed/status/1146456836998144000

This week ’s clangoring is just the up-to-the-minute in what has become a near semi - frequent occurrence of outages . The firstoccurredback in March in an incident that Facebook afterwards blamed on “ a server configuration change . ” Facebook and its subsidiarieswent down againabout a calendar month later , though the premature incident was much worse , withmillions of reportson DownDetector .

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Two week ago , Instagram wasbrickedand experienced ongoing issues with tonic feeds , loading profiles , and liking images . While the provender refresh issue was quickly patched , it was hour before the companionship confirmed that Instagram had been fully restored .

We ’ve reached out to Facebook for more entropy about the issues and will update this post if we hear back .

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