“It was highly unusual to have so many apps go dark from the world’s largest social media company at the same time. The outage of the three popular social media platforms comes a day before one of its whistleblowers was all set to testify before a Congressional committee.

Bear with us, we’re on it!” the photo sharing app had tweeted. “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them.

Thanks for your patience!” said the messaging app which more than two billion active users in the tweet. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. “We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. WhatsApp and Instagram too had taken to Twitter to inform their users about the outage. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience.” To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I'm sorry,” Schroepfer said in another tweet.Įarlier in the day, Facebook had said: “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. “Facebook services are coming back online now… (It) may take some time to get to 100 per cent. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.”

Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer of Facebook, said on Twitter: “Sincere apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now.

Thank you for bearing with us,” Facebook, which owns photo sharing app Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp, said on 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. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. While the users of the three social media platforms remained clueless as they repeatedly received error messages for most part of the day, the stocks of Silicon Valley firm Facebook dropped by nearly five per cent as a result. Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are coming back online after several hours of disruption that impacted millions of people worldwide.

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