Yahoo Finance 'Total blackout': Facebook, Instagram crashes across the globe
The world's biggest social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, are suffering worldwide outages this Friday morning as users report difficulties with using the platform.
Down Detector saw a dramatic spike in people reporting "total blackout" issues when accessing Facebook's site from around 7:16am AEDT.
A similar spike is seen for Instagram, a largely mobile-based app owned by Facebook, where users started experiencing issues with their news feed from around 7:05am.
"My Facebook, Messenger and Instagram isn’t working at all on anything," one user said at 7:43am.
"From what I can tell it's most of the world that's down," another user said.
Social media users took to Twitter to vent their frustrations about the platforms, joking that the outages were a boon for the microblogging site.
Twitter headquarters after seeing that Instagram is down#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/C5Ah2ZYSs2
— ₁₀ (@BazMCFC) April 8, 2021
Facebook and Instagram is down. Who do we go to? pic.twitter.com/cJnCNSmfQZ
— Alex 🍉 (@leximojicadg) April 8, 2021
Instagram acknowledged in a tweet that the platform wasn't functioning properly.
Is your #instagramdown? We know some people are having issues right now. We’re working on it and hope to have everything running smoothly as soon as possible.
— Instagram (@instagram) April 8, 2021
More to come.
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