Last month, the social media giant experienced one of its longest ever outages, when millions of users around the globe faced trouble accessing the site, along with Instagram and WhatsApp for more than 24 hours.įacebook blamed the previous outage on a hack.Įach evening at 1830 UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. Read more: Assessing WhatsApp's 5 years with Facebookįacebook has more than 1.52 billion daily active users, according to its website. The hashtags #FacebookDown, #instagramdown and #whatsappdown were all trending on Twitter globally on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what caused the outage. The issue has since been resolved, we're sorry for any inconvenience,' a spokesman told the Reuters news agency. 'Earlier today, some people may have experienced the trouble connecting to the family of apps. Hours later, the services were restored, according to a Facebook spokesperson. It showed the WhatsApp and Instagram issues were relatively lower by a count of outage reports from users. Read more: EU hails social media crackdown on hate speech The website also showed that WhatsApp and Instagram - both owned by Facebook - also experienced severe outages around the same time. CEST (1030 UTC) in much of the world.Īt one point, the site registered more than 14,000 outage reports from users, which is believed to represent just a fraction of those affected.

For the second time in a month, Facebook was not loading for millions of users in the northeastern US, Europe and parts of Asia on Sunday.ĭ, a website that monitors site outages, showed the social media giant went down at 12:30 p.m.

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