We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. Panicked stockholders started selling off stock in a mass sell-off, causing shares to plummet by five per cent, creating a loss of $8.5 billion for Zuckerberg.Īccording to the Bloomberg Index, Zuckerberg now dropped below Bill Gates to number five on the rich list, his net worth at $120.9 billion compared to mid-September when he was at $140 billion.įacebook spokespeople offered their apologies to everyone affected by the problems, but little by way of explanation of how the world’s biggest websites went offline for much of the day. The problems also affected Facebook’s own internal services – apparently leaving it unable to properly address the outage – and the additional web traffic sent to rivals such as Twitter and Telegram meant that they slowed down dramatically.įacebook global outage cost Mark Zuckerberg $8.5 billion, according to reports. Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and the main Facebook app had all been offline for more than six hours in one of the biggest technical failures in the company’s history.
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have started to come back online after being down for more than six hours in a major outage.
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