Facebook and Instagram Suffer Most Severe Outage Ever

• 03.14.2019, 14:45
•  World

Facebook appears to be recovering from a more than 14-hour disruption to all of its products that left them mostly inaccessible across the world, BBC reports. 

The company's main social network, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected.

Facebook has yet to offer an explanation for the outage.

The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users - compared with around 2.3bn monthly users today.

The problems began yesterday afternoon, and only showed real signs of recovery this morning. They meant core platforms many people rely on every day to communicate were rendered mostly useless.

"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps," Facebook said in a statement.

"We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."

Facebook's apps seemed to be recovering on Thursday morning, with Instagram announcing it was back.