Facebook and Instagram are inexplicably down — and social media users really don’t know what to do with themselves other than complain and seek answers on Twitter.
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by DownDetector.com around 1:49 p.m. on Wednesday.
Users are taking to Twitter, still up-and-running, to share their grievances with the social media disruption.
“everyone opening twitter to check if their instagram is down too #instagramdown,”
.
“That time again… #instagramdown and we all rush to check Twitter. And this time? Facebook is down too! #Facebookdown,” added another.
By 2:22 p.m., over 65,000 users had reported Instagram to DownDetector. As of 2:23, nearly 14,000 had logged Facebook’s error.
Both platforms are currently back online after the errors.
“Earlier today some people may have had trouble accessing our family of apps due to a network configuration change,” a Facebook company spokesperson told The Post. “This issue has since been resolved, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
