'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. Although a rare phenomenon, such an outage has had a huge impact on the site’s users, which include businesses.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. This is a rare blackout for Facebook, which is the world’s largest social media network and currently dominates the industry. There’s no word yet from Facebook about what may be causing the problem or when those sites, including Messenger and WhatsApp, will be operational again, but we will update with more information when it’s available. Users can load games they already have installed and the browser works, but social features or installing new games does not. The problem also appears to be affecting its virtual reality arm, Oculus.

Currently, users impacted by the outage cannot send and receive any messages, nor can they post or view new content. On Instagram and Whatsapp, users were able to load their old feeds and messages, but no new content was available. Those hoping to log into their Facebook accounts simply received an error page stating that their browser could not connect to the social media site, which hosts nearly three billion active users.

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