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Facebook back up in UAE after global outage

Dubai - Popular social networking site and Instagram went down for a while for 'maintenance'

By Yousuf Saifuddin Kapadia

Published: Sat 26 Aug 2017, 5:45 PM

Last updated: Sun 27 Aug 2017, 10:17 AM

Facebook was down - it's true!
Netizens and social media enthusiasts' worst nightmare came true on Saturday as the popular social networking website went 'down' for maintenance - for a while.
According to media reports, Facebook users around the world found themselves unable to access the social network through their desktop computers.
The California-based site outage has left users unable to share links or post articles.
The outage also affected the facebook app on iOS devices.
Facebook status detector website, Down Detector, which tracks outages across the globe, showed users reporting issues with the Facebook website throughout the UK, parts of mainland Europe and the USA.
Issues were also reported in Pakistan and UAE.

The outage heat map a while back:

The site was down for nearly 20 minutes of outage, which caused panic around the world. There were also reports of Instagram (popular multimedia content sharing app) going down.
Facebook co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg came out of his Twitter hiatus to assure users that engineers were working on the issue:

Facebook is down, we will be back soon, don't worry! Engineers sorting it right now #FacebookDown
- Mark Zuckerberg (@MarkZuckurberg) August 26, 2017

Everything is sorted now
- Mark Zuckerberg (@MarkZuckurberg) August 26, 2017

Thanks for your patience, hopefully you still get lots of likes on your pictures! Tag me in your selfies guys... #Facebook #Instagram
- Mark Zuckerberg (@MarkZuckurberg) August 26, 2017

Zuckerberg had last tweeted in March!
Here are some of the hilarious reactions to the outage:

When Facebook and Instagram are down at the same time... pic.twitter.com/mxtZDNNS2h
- FC Bayern US (@FCBayernUS) August 26, 2017

#FacebookDown #InstagramDown
Twitter saves the day like. pic.twitter.com/JYkogTnnGh
- Juan Jose Castillo (@juanjose94) August 26, 2017

#facebookdown and everyone is on Twitter to confirm what exactly happening. Even many people started to opening a new Twitter account.
- Kamal (@itzkmlmedhi) August 26, 2017

When Facebook and Instagram are both down and you come crawling back to twitter to get your social media fix #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/F3kQ55OYYR
- confidentschool (@confidentsch) August 26, 2017

Our sentiments exactly:

My reaction when I find out facebook is down and realize I can't post it on facebook.#facebook #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/0IIOXwrux2
- Joe B. Lewis (@vettijoe) August 26, 2017

When Facebook and Instagram are down, we be like....#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/yQ7jHfyW52
- Chicago Sport Social (@ChiSportSocial) August 26, 2017

Facebook boasts of 2 billion monthly users around the world, according to their latest report issued in June, with over 8.7 million Facebook users in the UAE. Instagram has 700 million monthly users, as of April this year, with an estimated 1.2 million users in the country.
yousufk@khaleejtimes.com