Shares of Facebook, which has nearly 2 billion daily active users, closed 4.9% lower on Monday, wiping $47bn (£34.5bn) off its market value.

Twitter and Tik Tok reported higher-than-normal usage, which led to some issues in people accessing Twitter posts and direct messages. 'It shows how much Facebook is now part of critical infrastructure in the US and around the world.' Whatsapp has two billion users - for many of those people it is their only form of communication and they felt very vulnerable without that and without the ability to do business.

'They run their businesses through Facebook. For hundreds of thousands of people around the world this was about their ability to do business. 'It's not just about posting pictures and status updates. Sky's US correspondent Greg Milam, at Facebook HQ in California, said: 'Even when it started to get back to normal it was very, very slow and sporadic before people had everything back up and running. 'Facebook basically locked its keys in its car,' tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center Regarding the internal failures, Instagram head Adam Mosseri tweeted that it feels like a 'snow day'. People using their Facebook credentials to log in to third-party apps such as Pokemon Go and Match Masters were also said to be facing issues.įor hours, Facebook's only public comment was a tweet in which it acknowledged that 'some people are having trouble accessing (the) Facebook app' and said it was working on restoring access. Problems were reported across the world, including in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Russia, and New Zealand.

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