Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are finally back up and running after outage left thousands of users unable to use the sites for FOUR HOURS
Facebook, Messenger and Instagram stopped working for thousands of users
DownDetector logged thousands of complaints from just after 9:30am UK time
Thousands of people across the UK have been left unable to send messages
Facebook said in the afternoon it was back up and running with no issues
Problems persisted globally for around four hours, according to DownDetector Facebook, Messenger and Instagram all stopped working for thousands of users today, and were not functioning properly for around four hours.
The Facebook-owned social media apps went down at around 09.30 GMT, according to the website Downdetector, which monitors online outages.
Users were unable to send messages and were flashed an error message which said the app was ‘waiting for network’. More than half (52 per cent) of reported issues with Messenger pertained to sending and receiving messages whereas the main Facebook site’s biggest reported problem was total blackout, accounting for 41 per cent of problems.
Facebook confirmed the issue is now resolved but it remains unknown what caused the issue and how long it will last. Not all users were affected.
‘Earlier today, some people have experienced trouble sending or receiving messages on Messenger, Instagram or Workplace Chat,’ a Facebook spokesperson told MailOnline.
‘The issue has since been resolved and we apologise for any inconvenience.’
Facebook’s private messaging app, Messenger, faced the most significant issues, with the majority of reports coming from the UK and Europe.
Instagram and Facebook experiencing complaints in the hundreds, but Messenger suffered thousands, according to DownDetector.
Frustrated users took to Twitter, the last remaining vestige of mainstream social media not yet owned by Mark Zuckerberg, to share their anger.
One user wrote: ‘Either Facebook messenger is down on my phone or my wifi is extremely poor this morn. Let me text my friends back!’
Others quipped that due to the wide-reach of Facebook-owned apps they were left cut off and also had nothing to entertain themselves with.
WhatsApp, which is also owned by Facebook, was not affected.
One Twitter user called ‘I’mChicken’ said: ‘I’m here in twitter because facebook and messenger is own #fcebookmessengerdown’
Another user called Mike Covell, a historian, said: ‘#FacebookDown If you need me send a carrier pigeon.’
Sophie Hughes used Twitter to joke that with the apps offline, she may be forced to call people. ‘How will i cope?’ she adds.
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