Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's biggest outage till date

New Delhi : Mark Zuckerberg has issued an apology for the biggest disruption people had to face on Facebook-owned products like WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook itself. He also noted that the services were returning online across the globe.

"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.

"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.

Taking to Twitter early on Tuesday, WhatsApp said: "Apologies to everyone who hasn't been able to use WhatsApp today. We're starting to slowly and carefully get WhatsApp working again. Thank you so much for your patience. We will continue to keep you updated when we have more information to share."

The company said in a post on Monday, "The largest outage we've ever seen on Downdetector with over 10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe."

The maximum number of complaints were registered from the United States.

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