Most complaints cited issues with the website (72%), while others were linked to issues with the server connection and the app. He said: 'We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.'Īccording to web service monitoring platform DownDetector, thousands of people reported outages before 5pm today.ĭata on its website showed that almost 50,000 people had reported the outages on Facebook. The platforms had earlier confirmed on Twitter they were aware of issues and were working to resolve them.įacebook's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer expressed 'sincere apologies' to users via Twitter. We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. It said: 'To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. In a statement this evening, the social media giant apologised for the outage and said services were beginning to come back online.

While access to Facebook and Instagram appeared to have been largely restored just before midnight, users were still reporting issues with WhatsApp.įacebook's family of apps essentially 'disappeared' from the internet for several hours after a traffic routing problem that made the sites unreachable by users, according to Cloudflare, a website security company.

Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp services began returning online late yesterday evening after a massive and lengthy outage that began this afternoon.

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