The explanation comes: Facebook didn't fall, it was peaceful how even workers had access to it.

For six hours, Facebook users, Instagram and WhatsAppit had to be connected through other platforms, or so-called realities, to conduct their interactions.

Billions of users worldwide were affected by this.

According to some reports, the affected were not only the common users (there are people) but also the employees of this company, since even the company's internal systems were blocked.

This also prevented the staff from accessing internal e-mails.

In a post, Facebook reported that its engineering teams had found that some configuration changes in its routines co-ordinating network traffic among company data centres had caused disruptions in this communication, Periscope follows.

Explaining the problem, expert Lotem Finkelsten said: “simply, it is internet protocol to cover the words we use as Facebook. com in language that computers know in numbers, or Internet addresses. They make this conversion and lead us to the services and apps that we ask to use. When these services go down, they seem to be really down, but they're actually just peaceful. ”

What is the significance of this interruption?

There have been numerous Internet blackouts that have grown in recent years.

While the internet is originally conceived as a decentralised network, experts believe that a number of large infrastructure companies have based their services on internet-based platforms. This can be very problematic worldwide.