The social media giants Facebook and Instagram had to deal with a worldwide outage for hours on Thursday afternoon. According to DownDetector users worldwide reported having trouble accessing their Instagram and Facebook accounts. The outrage started around 9 a.m.ET Thursday, by. About 70% of Instagram users reported problems accessing their feed. Among Facebook users, 66% said they couldn’t access log-in or else access the service; 32% said they had issues accessing their News Feed.
Instagram issued a statement Thursday on Twitter: “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook’s family of apps, including Instagram,” the tweet said. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”
Kate Banner
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