Thousands of Facebook and Instagram users worldwide, mostly on the east coast of the US and parts of Europe, suffered temporary service outages on Monday. The company has apologized for the “inconvenience.”
The social media giant had issues for about 90 minutes starting at 4:48pm EDT, according to Down Detector web service. Over 13,000 users reported troubles logging into their accounts or suffering a “total blackout.”
Many users immediately took to Twitter to check what was going on and express their distress.
“Earlier today, a networking issue caused some people to have trouble accessing or posting to various Facebook services,” Facebook spokesman Jay Nancarrow said. “We quickly investigated and started restoring access, and we have nearly fixed the issue for everyone. We're sorry for the inconvenience.”
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