Facebook, Instagram down: Users report trouble accessing the social media platforms

Users across the world are finding it difficult to access social networking websites Facebook and Instagram. The problem, first reported on Wednesday night, persisted on Thursday morning as well.

Facebook down: Users having truoble accessing FB, Instagram

Users are finding Facebook and Instagram inaccessible or are unable to log in from their accounts.

Users across the world are finding it difficult to access social networking websites Facebook and Instagram. The problem, first reported on Wednesday night, persisted on Thursday morning. Both companies took to Twitter to acknowledge the problem.

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” the official Twitter handle of Facebook stated in a tweet.

Instagram, meanwhile, tweeted: “We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP.”

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Users are finding the sites inaccessible or are unable to log in from their accounts. #FacebookDown and #InstagramDown were trending on Twitter on Thursday morning.

We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

— Facebook (@facebook) March 13, 2019

“Facebook will be back soon,” reads the message notifying the netizens about the speculated glitch. The Facebook crash comes a day after Google’s e-mail website Gmail and Google Drive faced global service outage as users complained of issues of service disruption.

The message being displayed for users trying to access their accounts.

In Gmail, users faced difficulties sending emails. The issue also impacted private Gmail and Gmail for enterprise users, who use their company account. Previously, Gmail was down back in January with users in India and Europe reporting issues and getting a 404 error.

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At that time, Google had issued a statement saying it was aware of the issue with Gmail and was investigating the problem. “The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behaviour,” the statement had read at the time.