SEOUL: Facebook is suffering a widespread outage Tuesday affecting users in the United States, Asia and Australia.
The social media giant's Instagram service is also inaccessible.
Instagram said on its Twitter account that it is aware of an outage and is working on a fix.
There was no immediate statement from Facebook.
Facebook had 1.25 billion monthly active users at the end of September.
Twitteratis Reaction: |
| <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I'm happy to see <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/facebookdown?src=hash">#facebookdown</a>. It's an opportunity for people to take a step back and experience all the beautiful internet out there.</p>— Chris Avila (@chrisavila) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrisavila/status/559972097473011714">January 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FacebookDown?src=hash">#FacebookDown</a>....hey-ho, back to the old traditional ways then.... <a href="http://t.co/1gyM0ii2vr">pic.twitter.com/1gyM0ii2vr</a></p>— Mark Hinge (@MarkHinge) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkHinge/status/559973192681680896">January 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Never knew Facebook had so much love despite its archaic notion by social media users. Fully operational now.. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/facebookdown?src=hash">#facebookdown</a></p>— Jack Sparrow™ (@Deyneeji_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Deyneeji_/status/559973170237956097">January 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Facebook was down for thirty minutes. Nine Scentsy sales reps lost their lives. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FacebookDown?src=hash">#FacebookDown</a></p>— Mike Morrison (@mikesbloggity) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesbloggity/status/559974543096168449">January 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Facebook down: Twitter paniks, only half jokingly. Twitter down: No one on Facebook even notices. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/facebookdown?src=hash">#facebookdown</a></p>— Fiete Stegers (@fiete_stegers) <a href="https://twitter.com/fiete_stegers/status/559973500480675840">January 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Facebook was down for a brief while. Glad its back now cos a woman just held out her baby to me and begged me to 'like' it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/facebookdown?src=hash">#facebookdown</a></p>— Rani of Random (@suku06) <a href="https://twitter.com/suku06/status/559973481253597184">January 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" /></p></td></tr></table> |