Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Are Slowly Coming Back Online After An Over 6-Hour Outage

It was a looong day.

Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Are Slowly Coming Back Online After An Over 6-Hour Outage
Mikhail Primakov | Dreamstime
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On Monday, October 4, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced outages across Canada.

According to the website DownDetector, the three mega-popular social media platforms went down around 11:45 a.m. EDT. Facebook officials confirmed their platforms started to come back online around 6:30 p.m. EDT.

"We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now," Facebook said in a tweet. "Thank you for bearing with us."

While the official cause for the outage has not yet been released, Mike Schroepfer, the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, tweeted that Facebook's services were "experiencing network issues" throughout the day.

Many took to Twitter to share some hilarious memes while the outage continued for most of the day, and even more popped up when things started coming back online.

Deep breaths, everyone.

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    Sarah Rohoman (she/her) was a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. She has worked at BuzzFeed Canada, Yahoo Canada, and CBC Radio in news, lifestyle, ecommerce, and social media. She has an MA in Journalism from Western University and a BA from McGill. She loves libraries, alpacas, and all things witchy.

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