The applications of social networking sites, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, began to return to work, albeit slowly, after hours of complete interruption.
A global outage in the services of the three applications owned by Facebook has caused many users of these platforms to move to Twitter.
New York Times reporter Shera Frankel tweeted: "It's happening now...Facebook is slowly coming back and the staff who are overseeing misinformation are back in their offices."
Frankel had said in a previous tweet, quoting a company employee, that some workers were unable to enter the building to work on the malfunction assessment because their badges were not working to open the doors.
It was noteworthy that Facebook released its data and updates regarding this flaw via the Twitter platform, and the first statement from the company via Twitter stated: "We realize that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience. No inconvenience."
The New York Times had quoted Facebook as excluding that the problem faced by the site is due to electronic attacks.
While it was not immediately clear what caused the outage, technical security experts pointed to a problem with the Domain Name system as the likely cause. A "domain name" allows web addresses to transport users to their destinations, and a similar outage that hit cloud services company AkamaiTechnologies Inc last July led to the shutdown of multiple sites.
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