


"We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Nearly $50bn (£36.7bn) was wiped off Facebook’s value after its social media platforms went down for several hours due to a "faulty configuration change".įacebook and Instagram were partially reconnected to users around the world around 10.45pm on Monday, nearly six hours into a global outage.įacebook issued an apology for the outage which impacted the social media giant, along with Instagram and WhatsApp, which Facebook also owns.įacebook Engineering said in a statement on Twitter late on Monday: "To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry.
