Spotify, Tinder, Other Apps Suffer Outages Due to Facebook Glitch
July 10 2020 - 9:53AM
Dow Jones News
By Parmy Olson
A number of popular apps such as Spotify and Tinder experienced
outages on Friday because of what Facebook Inc. said was a bug in
its software for iPhone users.
The issue relates to Facebook's software development kit, or
SDK, which many developers embed into their apps to allow people to
use certain services connected to Facebook. Some apps, such as
Spotify, allow users to log into their services using Facebook
accounts.
"We are aware that some applications are currently affected by
an issue in our Facebook iOS SDK," a spokesman for Facebook said.
"We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as
possible."
The bug doesn't affect users of Android phones or web users of
those applications.
On social media, users of other apps including Pinterest also
complained of their services crashing as soon as they opened
them.
Write to Parmy Olson at parmy.olson@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 10, 2020 09:38 ET (13:38 GMT)
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