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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Back Online

After about six hours of being hit, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are now back online.

Glamtush had earlier reported how the three social media platforms – owned by Mark Zuckerberg — completely stopped working shortly around 4:25 pm on Monday, October 4, leaving millions of users worried.

“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” Facebook had earlier written.

While the cause of the outage was not immediately clear, multiple security experts had blamed a domain name system (DNS) issue as a possible culprit.

But in a tweet a few minutes ago, Facebook apologised to those affected by the outage while also stating that the platforms “are coming back online now.”

“To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry.

“We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us,” it tweeted.

The outage was the second in 2021 with the first happening in March.

Angela Davies

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