Facebook reveals maintenance error was cause of global outage

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Facebook reveals maintenance error was cause of global outage
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Facebook reveals maintenance error was cause of global outage

Messaging app Telegram says it gained over 70 million new users during Facebook outage

Facebook has blamed a maintenance error for the global outage that left more than 2.9 billion users unable to access Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and other tools on Monday. In a blog post, Face...

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