Social media services owned by Facebook were down for several hours for users around the world. The outage was affecting the entire ‘family of apps.’
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp faced the outage from the early Morning on Wednesday, some users reported issues in uploading and downloading the images, video and audio files, while some of them faced difficulties in the News Feed.
Facebook acknowledged the technical glitch and tweeted from their global Twitter handle stating that “We're aware that some people are having trouble uploading or sending images, videos or other files on our apps. We're sorry for the trouble and are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible."
The outage affected users across Asia, Europe, USA, and Africa.
Users vented out their frustration against the three social media website on their Twitter accounts with the hashtags #instagramdown, #facebookdown and #whatsappdown, all of these hashtags were top trends on the site across the world.
Instagram was forced to issue its own statement on Twitter. "We're sorry for the trouble and are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible" Instagram tweeted.
