Facebook and Instagram are down, crash for users around the world

Facebook and Instagram are down for some users across the US

Facebook is experiencing a rare outage that is making the popular social network site — along with Facebook Messenger and Instagram — unavailable to users across the United States as well as parts of Europe and South America, according to third-party site Down Detector's outage map. Facebook has officially acknowledged the issue on its social media platforms (ironically, Twitter is likely your most reliable source due to the outage), and the company's support dashboard notes that it's working on a fix. We know some people are having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. — Facebook (@facebook) November 20, 2018Today's outage marks the second major downtime event for Facebook this month, following a shorter outage for about a half-hour on November 12th, which the company commented to USA Today was caused by a "routine test."

Facebook and Instagram are down for some users across the US

5 stories to read with Facebook and Instagram down

as well (Photo: NOAH BERGER/AP)With Facebook and Instagram crashing on Tuesday morning, leaving people without feeds to scroll through, what is left to do? Believe it or not, you can read most of the good stuff the World Wide Web has to offer without the permission of the social media giants. They're here for you even when Facebook isn't. A cancer survivor gives back to the hospital that helped him as a childA 15-year-old cancer survivor who as a toddler was pulled through the halls of Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in a toy wagon is now giving back to the organization that helped save his life: 15-year-old cancer survivor donates 100 Fisher-Price wagons to Nemours4.

Facebook and Instagram are down, crash for users around the world

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Facebook and Instagram have been facing problems all morning. Downdetector was swamped with comments on Tuesday morning from people all over the world complaining about Facebook. Here are some of the comments:Karen Morley: "Facebook is slooooooow, barely even working for me. Dona Wallace: "Facebook down in Anna, TX"JerLeeBo: "Down in Minneapolis again, too." BanCyberz Hacks: "Maybe Facebook is tired, down in Indonesia"There is no word on when it will start fully working again.

Facebook and Instagram are down, crash for users around the world

Facebook and Instagram struggle with major outage




Facebook and Instagram are down for some users across the US

Facebook is experiencing a rare outage that is making the popular social network site — along with Facebook Messenger and Instagram — unavailable to users across the United States as well as parts of Europe and South America, according to third-party site Down Detector's outage map. Facebook has officially acknowledged the issue on its social media platforms (ironically, Twitter is likely your most reliable source due to the outage), and the company's support dashboard notes that it's working on a fix. We know some people are having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. — Facebook (@facebook) November 20, 2018Today's outage marks the second major downtime event for Facebook this month, following a shorter outage for about a half-hour on November 12th, which the company commented to USA Today was caused by a "routine test."

Facebook and Instagram are down for some users across the US

Facebook and Instagram are down, crash for users around the world

according to (Photo: NOAH BERGER/AP)With Facebook and Instagram crashing on Tuesday morning, leaving people without feeds to scroll through, what is left to do? Believe it or not, you can read most of the good stuff the World Wide Web has to offer without the permission of the social media giants. They're here for you even when Facebook isn't. A cancer survivor gives back to the hospital that helped him as a childA 15-year-old cancer survivor who as a toddler was pulled through the halls of Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in a toy wagon is now giving back to the organization that helped save his life: 15-year-old cancer survivor donates 100 Fisher-Price wagons to Nemours4.

5 stories to read with Facebook and Instagram down

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Facebook and Instagram have been facing problems all morning. Downdetector was swamped with comments on Tuesday morning from people all over the world complaining about Facebook. Here are some of the comments:Karen Morley: "Facebook is slooooooow, barely even working for me. Dona Wallace: "Facebook down in Anna, TX"JerLeeBo: "Down in Minneapolis again, too." BanCyberz Hacks: "Maybe Facebook is tired, down in Indonesia"There is no word on when it will start fully working again.

Facebook and Instagram are down, crash for users around the world

Facebook and Instagram struggle with major outage

ET: "Earlier today, a server configuration caused intermittent problems across all apps globally, creating a degraded experience for users," Facebook told Mashable in a statement. #FacebookDown is currently the top trending topic on Twitter as users flock to the site to report on the Facebook outage. Most users who are experiencing the Facebook outage report seeing an error message stating "Sorry, something went wrong. The error message that many Facebook users are reporting to have seen. Image: DowndetectorAs become customary when Facebook goes down, there are tweets:Sitting at work waiting for Facebook & Instagram to come back like… #FacebookDown #InstagramDown pic.twitter.com/pWofhKXOOs — Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) November 20, 2018me rushing to twitter to make sure i'm not the only one whose facebook and instagram are acting up#FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/cRsaGCUgqh — zyx (@kkijiyong) November 20, 2018


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