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Later in the day, Twitter also said it was experiencing issues with its platform. #Facebookdown and #instagramdown were trending on Twitter as users around the world reported these apps were not functioning. “The issue has since been resolved and we should be back at 100 percent for everyone,” the company tweeted at 00:06 GMT on Thursday, adding they were sorry for “any inconvenience”.Ī Facebook spokesperson, also speaking on behalf of Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp, explained that a “routine maintenance operation” accidentally triggered a bug that made it difficult for users to upload or send photos and videos, US media reported. Online monitoring service DownDetector reported on Wednesday that the outage began around 12:00 GMT and affected Facebook as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp services.
Facebook said it was “back at 100 percent” after an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world.