“We’re aware of an outage affecting Instagram and
are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience,” Instagram said in a
Twitter message, which was deleted after the service was restored.
Users in various parts of the world were reporting that Facebook was down. People accessing Facebook’s website received a message: “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”
Facebook could not be immediately reached for comment. Some users were reporting that some other websites were also down but it could not be immediately confirmed.
The outages come as a “life-threatening blizzard”
hit the northeast U.S., but it wasn’t clear whether it had affected the
online services.
Users later reported that both Facebook and Instagram were back, though neither website explained what had caused the outage.
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