Around midnight yesterday, a large number of social media users across theglobe started reporting seeing error messages while trying to load Facebookand Instagram. Hundreds and thousands of users flocked to Down Detector tonote issues with the social media mobile applications and desktop websites.
Data from the app shows that the outage hit the United States, Europe,Canada, the Atlantic, parts of Ireland, Portugal, the UK, the Netherlands,Sweden, and some other parts of the world.
The error message that users were receiving said:
Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it, and we’ll get it fixed assoon as we can.
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Thankfully, the outage was fixed rather quickly. Just an hour after theoutage was reported, some users started reporting about Facebook andInstagram mobile applications resuming functionality but with slow loadingpages.
As far as the desktop versions are concerned, they took a while beforerestarting proper functionality.
