For most people, the services appeared to be back online and running normally within an hour. — AFP
LOS ANGELES: A surge of users of Facebook and Instagram reported problems accessing the apps and websites on Thursday afternoon – the latest outage to hit the massive social media company. For most people, the services appeared to be back online and running normally within an hour.
Reports of technical issues for both Facebook-owned services spiked at about 5.15pm ET on DownDetector.com. By 5.27pm ET, the number of error reports for Instagram had hit nearly 90,000 while Facebook user reports were just over 140,000, according to DownDetector. The problems appeared to be mainly affecting users in the US.
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