Facebook says services tripped up by server problem

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 16, 2018 a figurine carrying the logo of social network Facebook is viewed in Paris. - Facebook said November 20, 2018 users were having trouble accessing the social network and its other applications such as Instagram, but did not explain the cause of the outages.It was the second instance in the past two weeks in which technical issues appeared to affect access to Facebook.The independent monitoring site Downdetector showed a map indicating outages affecting most parts of the world, especially in North America, Europe and Asia. The hashtag #FacebookDown was trending on Twitter. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)

WASHINGTON: Facebook said Nov 20 users had trouble accessing the social network and its other applications such as Instagram for a chunk of the day due to a server software problem. 

It was the second instance in the past two weeks in which technical issues appeared to affect access to Facebook.