Facebook and its services back after longest worldwide outage ever
Most of Facebook’s platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, went down with widespread outages today. Users began reporting outages around 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The blackout of services continued for 7 hours till services began to recover around 6 p.m. Eastern.
Having to use Twitter to get their messages out, Facebook announced around 6:33 p.m.
Andy Stone, a spokesman for Facebook also tweeting out:
During this time Facebook shares fell as much as 5% wiping out nearly $6 billion of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth. The mystery of what happened to Facebook is still a mystery.