It was one of the longest failures in recent memory. Zuckerberg's very bad day: What you need to know 'We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now,' the company's spokesman, Andy Stone, said in a tweet. Across the globe, users of Facebook and its sister sites were unable to load content or were greeted with error messages.įacebook and its affiliated apps began to return online for some users about 5:45pm ET, around six hours after the incident began. The error-reporting website Downdetector showed the services first stopped working around 11:45am Eastern Time (7:40pm in the UAE). 'To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I'm sorry.' ' Facebook services coming back online now - may take some time to get to 100 per cent,' its chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer said in a tweet.

Apmore issues reported as users claim video calls were being cut off.Facebook on Monday began restoring access to its platform as well as to Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger after a global outage lasting about six hours shut out many of its 2.7 billion users, left some of the company’s employees idle and prompted a public apology.DecemiPhone users reported issues with WhatsApp.OctoDownDetector records thousands of users again reporting issues with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.The crash came after a ' bungled server update'. OctoFacebook's biggest-ever outage takes other apps, such as WhatsApp, offline for seven hours.MaFacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp reported issues.A FB spokesperson said a “routine maintenance operation” accidentally triggered a bug. JUsers reported issues on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with the latter experiencing difficulties with receiving messages.The issue was put down to a server configuration change. March 2019 - Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down in what was described at the times as 'its worst outage ever'.

Here's when WhatsApp outages have been reported:

They run on a shared infrastructure meaning other services run by Facebook will experience server issues, including the Oculus website and Facebook Workplace.

Facebook and Instagram commonly experience small individual outages, but it's rare for the apps to all go down at once.

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