Facebook family of apps has been hit by major outages, with users reporting that the sites’ home pages showed a “service unavailable” message.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Facebook confirmed the development using Twitter after users of the social media network erupted on the micro-blogging platform and #FacebookDown memes began to spread.
“We know some people are having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” Facebook tweeted.
We know some people are having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
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— Meta (@Meta) November 20, 2018
Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram were all affected in the outages, and users had problems logging in to their accounts, the second in about a week for Facebook.
Instagram users found that the web service would not load, though the app appeared to be working, and Facebook’s Messenger app reportedly crashed all around the world.