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After almost 24 hours of technical difficulties, Facebook is back

But those outages happen less and less frequently for companies of Facebooks size, and Wednesdays Facebook outage was rare, both in scope and length.

Many of Facebooks apps were down globally, meaning it impacted millions of users at any given time, and the outage went on for nearly 24 hours.

Downdetector, a company that monitors internet service outages in real time, received some 7.5 million outage reports for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp yesterday.

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