Potentially billions of individuals were left without access to the social media platforms they mostly used to communicate with friends and family during the outage.
The consequences also affected Mark Zuckerberg at the time, who lost an estimated $6 billion (£4.4 billion) in his personal wealth as Facebook’s stock fell precipitously.
“Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are coming back online now,” Zuckerberg said in a post.
I apologize for the inconvenience today; I understand how important our services are to you and your loved ones.
