«Breaking News» Facebook back up and running after 8 HOUR global outage, but issues persist with Instagram, Whatsapp

Facebook appears to be running again more than eight hours after users around the world began reporting outages - but problems with Instagram and Whatsapp are ongoing.  

Thousands of users found themselves unable to connect to social media between noon and 8pm Eastern as a slew of Facebook-owned sites experienced issues, in some cases resulting in a 'total blackout'.

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger crashed primarily in major urban areas across the United States and Europe, along with parts of South America.

WhatsApp - also owned by Facebook - was affected by spotty service issues as well, though it did not appear to have been hit as hard as the other apps. 

When confirming the platform-wide issue Wednesday afternoon, Facebook shut down speculation that the site may have been targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.  

A slew of Facebook -owned social media sites are running again following hours-long outages worldwide on Wednesday. Outage hotspots for Facebook are shown in the map above

'We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps,' the firm Tweeted about two hours into the outage.

'We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.'

'We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack,' Facebook later added.

Social media users flocked to Twitter to complain about the outage after finding that not only is Facebook down, but Instagram is too.

More than a third of Facebook users affected by the outage reported that they were experiencing a 'total blackout.'

Others said they could not refresh the News Feed or log into their accounts.  Similar problems cropped up on Instagram and Messenger at roughly the same time.

While there has been speculation that the site may have been targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the firm said this is not the case

Instagram users have reported being unable to refresh the feed, log in, or access the desktop site. 

On Messenger, many users were not able to connect to the server at all and reported that they were not receiving messages.

Many were quick to point out that they are frequently turning to Twitter to check if other websites are down, noting that the platform somehow is always 'standing strong' despite service issues elsewhere.

Others took the opportunity to joke about Facebook's recent privacy scandals.

'Pages won't load. I'm sure they're busy loading new algorithms to sell your data & spy on you better and more efficiently,' one users tweeted. 

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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.

Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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