“5xx server error”. That is the message that appears when you want to enter Facebook services, including the social network itself, Instagram and WhatsApp, the most used messenger in the world, both in its mobile version and in the one used via the web on the computers of desk. The massive drop in services surprised and had an impact around the world.

The cut, which began at noon in Argentina and is unprecedented due to its duration, caused many various uncertainties and generated unknowns on the part of users. One of them is precisely what the message “5xx server error” means. It is not a minor fact: behind that explanation may be a good part of the reasons for the fall.

This is a message that appears when the server does not fulfill the required requests, either due to an internal error, an invalid response, a bad link or temporary unavailability of the program. In other words, the “central computers” of Facebook, one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market capitalization of more than USD 900,000 million, collapsed and are not capable of processing the access requests of the millions of users around the world. world. Why? What generated the massive error that the technicians of the social media giant were unable to resolve quickly? It is not yet known.

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