The same statement was posted shortly after on the official Facebook Twitter page. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” spokesperson Andy Stone said on Twitter. To sign up to our breaking email alerts click hereĪ company spokesperson said that it apologised for the problem but gave no indication of why the outage began or how long it might take to fix. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram at least partially reconnected to the global internet after a nearly six-hour outage. Any problems can often lead people to start using competitors instead, he said, and noted that it can take “months” to win back trust and get people back on Facebook’s platforms – if they come back at all. In a leaked transcript published in The Verge in 2019, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg noted that such outages are a “big deal”. Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. In 2019, for instance, it suffered its biggest outage in years – and said only that it had “triggered an issue” during “routine maintenance operations”. Facebook is currently experiencing a rarely seen global outage that is taking out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Service began resuming for some users at around 6 p.m. Pacific time, the social network's namesake app, along with. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online after experiencing a worldwide outage on Monday that lasted throughout most of the day. The company is often cryptic about the causes of any issues, and does not tend to explain them even after they are fixed. Facebook and its entire family of apps are gradually becoming reachable after a lengthy outage Monday morning. Facebook’s outages happen relatively rarely but tend to be vast in their impact, not least because they affect three of the world’s biggest apps.