Get the best stories about the things you love most curated by us and delivered to your inbox every day. We will follow the latest developments in this global story here - scroll down for the latest updates. While the outtages have hit millions of people's methods of communication, there are also thousands of businesses that rely on Facebook in particular, and its Marketplace function, which are now effectively closed down while Facebook fixes the problem. The Facebook Messenger service is also out, leaving millions of people around the world using Twitter DMs, phone text, actual calls or speaking to each other in person to communicate with each other.

Just before 11pm last night, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all returned to functionality meaning that in total, people were unable to scroll through their feeds for over six hours. READ MORE: Why Facebook stopped working - what we know after WhatsApp and Instagram also hit The first inkling of a problem came at just after 4.30pm when the Facebook-owned phone messaging service WhatsApp crashed, swiftly followed by outtages reported for Facebook itself and Instagram. Millions of users across the world were desperately wondering when the sites will be fixed, with more than 60,000 complaints lodged with DownDetector. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram returned worldwide late last night after millions of users were left unable to access the social media platforms during yesterday's (Monday, October 4) global outage.

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