Facebook and Instagram down: Social media sites ‘crash’ with tens of thousands of fuming users reporting outage

FACEBOOK and Instagram have crashed for tens of thousands of users in a mysterious outage.

Online outage tracker Down Detector has logged thousands of complaints from around the UK.

Others are complaining that Whatsapp – also owned by Meta – is not working on their laptops.

It’s not clear at this stage why the social media apps aren’t working.

Facebook’s website currently says: “This site can’t be reached”.

The Down Detector site showed a spike in reports at around 8pm this evening.

Angry users have also complained on Twitter.

One person wrote: “Ughhh suppose I’ll scroll through Twitter since Facebook and Instagram are down.”

Another joked: “Elon Musk buys Twitter and Facebook and WhatsApp goes down…”

A third said: “Just spent 10 minutes turning my wifi on and off just to realise that Facebook and Instagram are down.”

The Sun has approached Meta for comment.

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