By CGTN Africa & TFN
Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp services began returning online Monday after a massive and lengthy outage that added to the social network’s woes.
Facebook’s family of apps essentially “disappeared” from the internet for several hours after a traffic routing problem that made the sites unreachable by users, according to Cloudflare, a website security company.
Facebook struggled to end an hours-long outage that potentially hit tens of millions of users across its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp.
Tracker Downdetector said it had received 10.6 million reports of problems ranging from the United States and Europe to Colombia and Singapore, with trouble first popping up around 15:45 GMT.
Roughly seven hours later, the services began returning online.
In The Gambia, there has been palpable excitement among users.
“We’re back finally,” one person wrote.
Another said: “Can you all see me here, someone please poke me so I know Facebook is working.”
But there are those who believe the outage was not bad at all.
One person said: “It was so relaxing, at least we were chatting like face to face chat for hours which is very difficult to hve now a days.”
