
For the six hours when Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp were down, 3.5 billion users could not access the social media platforms and messaging services.

Here's everything that happened in the dramatic day for the social media giant: We truly appreciate you and continue to be humbled by how much people and organizations rely on our app every day," the company said in the tweet.įacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also apologised to those affected by the outage. "Thank you to everyone around the world today for your patience while our teams worked diligently to restore WhatsApp. WhatsApp said on Twitter that it is back and running at 100 per cent. The California-based company said late on Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change”, adding that it had "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime." All these are owned by Facebook and the outage caused the stocks of the social media giant to plummet.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are back online after a six-hour-long outage which began late on Monday, affecting tens of millions of users worldwide.
