Facebook now working in UAE, parts of the world after major outage

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Facebook now working in UAE, parts of the world after major outage

Dubai - Users from around the world weren't able to access the website.

By Web Report

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Published: Sat 4 Aug 2018, 12:00 AM

Last updated: Sat 4 Aug 2018, 9:34 AM

Popular social networking website Facebook experienced a brief downtime preventing users from accessing the website. It was restored to working order after a couple of minutes.
According to downdetector.com, Facebook started to experience issues from 12:16pm EDT (8:16pm in UAE). The outage was experienced around the world with the hashtag #facebookdown trending on other social media sites. Several users from the Philippines, UAE, India and Canada said that Facebook stopped working for them.

According to a report from The Sun, the outage was worldwide, affecting a wide range of devices.
The site soon went back up with users around the world saying that it is now working fine.


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