Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down for about one hour across the world earlier, leaving social media users frustrated and unable to connect.
The social tools, all owned by Facebook, including the platform’s own Messenger service, were first reported as not being available from 15:30 GMT on Friday.
Users visiting Instagram online were shown a simple error message saying ‘5xx Server Error’, with no other information provided.
Some Facebook users were able to sign in to the app, although 63 percent of reports on downdetector.com suggested there was a ‘total blackout’.
A Facebook spokeswoman told Business Insider: ‘Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services.
‘We resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologise for any inconvenience.’
There was a sudden spike of reports on downdetector for the Facebook owned services, with the outage affecting the entire Facebook social product line.
Users have taken to social media to express their frustration at not being able to connect to friends, family or work colleagues.
Popular TV show Family Guy even shared its desperation, following the brief outage.
One user shared a picture of the word ‘connecting….’ and said ‘wifi on and off, phone on and down, switch to data, instagram still down, what’s app still down.’
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