Soon after the outage started, Facebook acknowledged users were having trouble accessing its apps but did not provide any specifics about the nature of the problem or say how many users were affected by the outage. “Facebook basically locked its keys in its car,” tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Security experts said the disruption could be the result of an internal mistake, though sabotage by an insider would be theoretically possible. Shares rose about half a per cent in after-hours trade following resumption of service. Shares of Facebook, which has nearly two billion daily active users, fell 4.9 per cent on Monday, their biggest daily drop since last November, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks.

CNAįor more stories like this, visit cna.asia.“To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I’m sorry,” Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted, adding that it “may take some time to get to 100 per cent”. 'Sorry! Everything's back to normal now,' they said on Twitter.

Telegram replied to various users on Twitter at about 12.01am early on Tuesday that things were 'back to normal', advising users to connect to the service again and 'let the memes flow'.Īt 12.11am, Telegram released a statement saying its users in East Asia, Indonesia, India and Australia were affected by the outage. Users on Twitter said the service was back online.Īt about 11.46pm, Telegram replied to users on Twitter, apologising 'for the interruption' and said it was working on a fix. Users also posted screenshots of the app displaying an 'Updating' message.Īs of 11.45pm, the number of reports fell to a few hundred. The outage began at about 10.15pm Singapore time and slowly resumed services from 11.30pm.Īccording to posts on Twitter and user-submitted reports to, the service appeared to be down in various countries, including Singapore, Indonesia, India, Australia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the United States.Īs of 11pm, more than 7,000 instances of outages were reported, with users tweeting that their messages were not being sent via the app. SINGAPORE - Users of popular messaging service Telegram reported outages worldwide on Monday (Jan 17).

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