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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after hours-long blackout

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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram have finally been restored after hours-long global outages on Monday night. The outage disabled the social network’s services for almost six hours.

Facebook acknowledged the issue on Twitter had later confirmed that its apps were working again and apologised to its mass users for a blackout that affected millions worldwide. Mark Zuckerberg made an apology on social media because of the blackout and according to sources he lost around 6 billion dollars. 

William Cathcart, the WhatsApp head, on Tuesday morning took to Twitter as well to announce that the popular cross-messaging service is back online, although he didn’t share any detail on the issues that caused the outage.

Data source: bgr.in

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