Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are DOWN for thousands worldwide as people report issues posting content, logging in and even being locked out
Users around the world are experiencing difficulty accessing social media sites Instagram and Facebook as well as encrypted messenger WhatsApp.
Those in mainland Europe seem to be hardest hit as well as a smattering of people in the eastern United States.
Issues centre around posting to the news feed, seeing stories and loading content.
MailOnline has approached representatives for all three firms – which are all owned by Facebook – for comment but we have yet to receive a reply.
Users around the world are experiencing difficulty accessing social media sites Instagram and Facebook as well as encrypted messenger WhatsApp. Pictured: European Instagram outage map
Those in mainland Europe seem to be hardest hit as well as a smattering of people in the eastern United States. Pictured: Outage map for worldwide Instagram Outage reports
Issues centre around posting to the news feed, seeing stories and loading content. Pictured: Outage reports for Instagram have grown from hundreds to thousands in the past hour
Facebook is not faring much better, with reports coming in from 1,200 users complaining that they can’t access the social network – a figure that continues to grow
The picture is not much better for users of WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned encrypted messenger, with outage reports now numbering almost 1,000
Users began to report the issues in their hundreds to outage tracker Down Detector shortly before 2pm BST (9am ET / 6am PT).
They have continued to grow ever since, as more and more users across the US attempt to log on for the first time today.
Reports for Instagram alone via the site had reached 4,300 at the time of writing.
Bemused and confused users took to social media to bemoan the outage and ask if others were experiencing any difficulty getting online.
Briana said: ‘Dear Instagram PLEASE FIX YOUR APP. Your news feed is almost always down.
‘Please do some major maintenance and fix all your problems!!! UPGRADE YOUR SERVERS TOO!!! – Yours truly one pissed off Instagrammer’
Bemused and confused users took to social media to bemoan the outage and ask if others were experiencing any difficulty getting online
Twitter user @evescenery said: ‘#instagramdown that’s it in moving to twitter permanently’
Briana Taylor took to Twitter to complain. She said: ‘Dear Instagram PLEASE FIX YOUR APP. Your news feed is almost always down. Please do some major maintenance and fix all your problems!!! UPGRADE YOUR SERVERS TOO!!! – Yours truly one pissed off Instagrammer’
Twitter user Eric Norton, from Daytona Beach, Florida, said: ‘It’s going to be one of those days again. #FacebookDown #InstagramDown Guess it’s back to living real life instead…’