Outages are nothing new in the online world, and services often go offline or experience slowdowns.

We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible- Mike Schroepfer October 4, 2021 *Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. Hours later, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer said in a tweet that the company was 'experiencing networking issues' and working as fast as possible 'debug and restore' its services. The company acknowledged that it was having issues shortly after noon ET, saying in a tweet from its WhatsApp account that it's 'working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.' Similar messages were shared on the Twitter accounts for Facebook and Facebook Messenger. ET, according to Down Detector, a crowdsourced website that tracks online outages.

The three social networks - all owned by Facebook - started having issues around 11:40 a.m. Thank you for bearing with us,' Facebook said in a tweet. 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. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are starting to come back online after a widespread outage lasted more than six hours on Monday, disrupting communications for the company's roughly 3 billion users.

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