Facebook and Instagram have been hit by major outages, with users reporting that the sites’ home pages showed a only a “service unavailable” message. Hours beforehand, Facebook’s Messenger app crashed around the world.
Outages were reported on Tuesday afternoon in Britain and continental Europe, and on Tuesday morning in North America. On downdetector.com, a site where users can report website outages, reports flowed in from as far as away Ethiopia, Australia, and the Philippines.
Facebook looks to currently be experiencing an outage. The website is currently showing errors while users attempt to login, and view the site #Facebook @facebook pic.twitter.com/xegl8bpMav
— Jonny McGuigan (@jonnymcguigan) November 20, 2018
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