Fb was reportedly affected by a bug that mechanically despatched a pal request to different customers, a difficulty that the corporate says it has resolved. Customers just lately took to Twitter to complain that the social networking service was sending requests to customers instantly upon visiting their profile. The difficulty was noticed by a number of customers, weeks after the corporate laid off over 11,000 workers, or 13 p.c of its workforce — largely comprising engineers and adjoining tech groups in its second spherical of layoffs this yr.
On Friday, customers started complaining that Fb was mechanically sending a pal request to a person as quickly as you visited their profile. Twitter person Bavid Mcjavid (@bavidmcjavid) shared a display recording of the glitch that reveals the Fb app deciding on the Add pal button with none person enter, forcing the person to manually cancel the pal request.
A number of different customers on Twitter complained of the identical glitch, and one person stated that each particular person they “stalked” — viewing a profile privately with out informing the person — mechanically obtained a request from them. One other person additionally said they had been experiencing the identical concern, including that it was the “incorrect night time” to undergo their yearbook to stalk different customers.
Shortly after the glitch was detected, Majavid tweeted that the problem appeared to have been resolved. In the meantime, Meta shared an announcement with The Every day Beast, revealing that it had fastened a bug that triggered the problem and apologised for the problem.
“We fastened a bug associated to a current app replace that triggered some Fb pal requests to be despatched mistakenly. We have stopped this from taking place and we apologize for any inconvenience this may occasionally have triggered,” a Meta spokesperson instructed the Every day Beast.
The glitch that triggered Fb to ship requests to different customers upon visiting their profile comes round a month after Meta introduced its second spherical of layoffs this yr. As a part of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “12 months of Effectivity”, the corporate is ready to put of hundreds of workers and lower prices utilizing varied strategies — together with decrease bonus payouts for some workers — by the top of the yr.
