India : Facebook is back up for some people, but WhatsApp and Instagram continue to be down in a widespread outage that has lasted more than six hours on Monday, disrupting communications for the company’s roughly 3 billion users.
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by more than $6 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline.
A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting 4.9% on Monday, adding to a drop of about 15% since mid-September.
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.
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.
