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Outage lasted 6 hours

Facebook restored its services last night, after a major outage that lasted for 6 hours.

The technical glitch also took down the company's platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram - hitting more than 3 billion combined users.

The social media giant is blaming a "faulty configuration change".

The falling share price wiped almost €41 billion off its value.

Matt Navarra is a social media consultant:

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