Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp appear to be coming back online after several hours of error messages and outages.
The company’s engineering team has issued an apology alongside an announcement of the return of its services.
“To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,” tweeted Facebook Engineering.
“We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now.”
Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer also confirmed minutes later that services were beginning to return.
Instagram’s public relations crew issued a similar statement via Twitter.
“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,” according to a statement issued by Facebook Engineering later Monday night.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the disruption in the operation of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and said the services are returning online.
“Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now,” Zuckerberg said on Facebook.
“Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about,” he said.
The outage impacted Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp users worldwide. The users of some other messengers, including Telegram, and services, were also affected.
Source: Agencies
