Facebook and Instagram are DOWN: Thousands of users report issues with Meta social media platforms
- Thousands of people have reported issues, according to Down Detector
- The problems are reportedly affecting Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp
Facebook and Instagram appear to be down across the UK with thousands of users logging issues accessing the social media sites.
According to DownDetector, more than 2,000 people have logged outages accessing Facebook since 8pm. More than 5,000 people have reported problems accessing Instagram.
There are also reports that Whatsapp is affected by the outage.
Some users are reporting on Twitter that they are seeing system errors when they try and access their accounts, or navigate around the sites.
Meta owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp – but not Twitter, which has just been taken over by Elon Musk
Others say the sites are just timing out. Most are turning to Twitter to complain about the issues as it is not owned by Meta and seems unaffected.
Problems began to appear at around 8pm, with a peak number of problems logged with site tracker Down Detector at around 8.50pm.
At 8.50pm on Friday, almost 15,000 people logged a problem with Instagram at once.
One Facebook user said: ‘Open my account for me, Facebook… Every account we open gets blocked without any reason… and you don’t have any support… What is this nonsense?’
This story is being updated.
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