Facebook Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage USA TODAY

Eli Blumenthal USA TODAY

Published 3:36 PM EDT Mar 13, 2019

Having hassle having access to Facebook or Instagram on Wednesday afternoon? You weren't on my own. 

The hugely popular social community began having problems at round noon Eastern time, with troubles popping up across Facebook right, Facebook Messenger and Instagram round the world. 

Some customers of Facebook-owned WhatsApp mentioned having problems sending images at the famous messaging app.

As with almost every Facebook outage, customers headed to Twitter with the hashtag #facebookdown speedy turning into the top trending subject matter in the United States. 

Downdetector.com, which video display units websites, showed the agency experiencing problems throughout a big portion of the U.S. And Europe in addition to reported troubles in parts of South America, Asia and Australia. 

It is not without delay clear what induced Wednesday's problem. Some users stated seeing a message pronouncing the site changed into down for "required maintenance," while others had been capable of get the social networks to briefly load before coming across that functionality become limited.  

"We’re aware that some people are presently having problem accessing the Facebook circle of relatives of apps," a Facebook spokesperson said in a declaration provided to USA TODAY. "We’re operating to clear up the problem as quickly as possible."

In a tweet at 3:03 p.M. ET the business enterprise reiterated that it's far nevertheless working on a restore. Facebook additionally confirmed that the outage turned into not the end result of any allotted denial of carrier, or DDoS, assault.

Contributing: Jessica Guynn

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