The global outage that affected Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Microsoft 365 services has hit businesses, banks and flights across the world
X owner Elon Musk has also chimed in on the situation with a well-timed jibe at its rival
The problem reportedly started around 6.30 am on Thursday
Zuckerberg, who ranked 3rd on the billionaires' list, has now slipped to 5th spot behind Bill Gates
The outage has occurred due to an error in Facebook’s domain name system records, according to reports
Google unexpectedly faced an 'authentication system outage', which led to login issues at the user end