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Washington: Services of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online after several hours of disruption, affecting millions of people around the world.
While users of the three social media platforms remained clueless as they received repeated error messages for the most part of the day, shares of Silicon Valley firm Facebook fell nearly five percent as a result.
To the vast community of people and businesses around the world that depend on us: We are sorry. We are working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report that they are now back online. Thank you for interacting with us, Facebook, which owns photo sharing app Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp, said on Twitter.
Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer said on Twitter: “Sincerely apologize to all those affected by the shutdown of Facebook-powered services now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as quickly as possible to debug and restore as quickly as possible.
Facebook services are now back online (it may take a while to reach) 100 percent. In another tweet, Schroepfer said, “To every small and large business, family and individual that depends on us, I am sorry.
Earlier in the day, Facebook said: We know that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
WhatsApp and Instagram also took to Twitter to inform their users about the outage.
We know that some people are facing problems with WhatsApp at this time. We are working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. thank you for your patience! The messaging app said the tweet has more than two billion active users.
Instagram and friends are having a little hard time right now, and you may have problems using them. Stay with us, we’re on it! The photo sharing app had tweeted.
A day before three popular social media platforms were shut down, one of its whistleblowers was ready to testify before a Congress committee.
It was extremely unusual for so many apps from the world’s biggest social media company to go dark at the same time. The New York Times wrote that more than 3.5 billion people use Facebook and its apps to communicate with each other and do business.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the outage also caused widespread disruption to Facebook’s internal communication tools, including some voice calls and the Tasks app used for calendar appointments and other tasks.
The company told employees on Monday morning that the reason for the power outage was unknown and that some employees were using Zoom to stay connected.
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