It’s the go-to messaging app for many people around the world, but it appears that Facebook Messenger has crashed this afternoon.
According to DownDetector, the issue started at around 15:08 GMT, and is affecting users across the UK.
While the reason for the outage remains unclear, of those who reported issues, 81 per cent said they were having issues receiving messages, while 18 per cent were struggling to log in.
MailOnline has contacted Facebook for comment.
It’s the go-to messaging app for many people around the world, but it appears that Facebook Messenger has crashed this afternoon
Facebook is yet to comment on the outage, although many frustrated users have taken to Twitter to discuss it.
One user said: ‘Facebook Messenger is down again for the second time this week. Its starting to become a very unreliable platform.’
Another added: ‘Anybody else having issues with Facebook messenger? I’m trying to respond to someone and constantly have a “Connecting…” message up at the top of the thread. This has happened on both the website and in the iOS app.’
And one joked: ‘Facebook messenger down. I wondered why I wasn’t getting a reply from my best friend.’
The main issue appears to be with Facebook Messenger, which has been reported over 4,000 times.
However, it seems that some users are also having problems with Facebook itself.
On DownDetector, Facebook has been reported as having issues over 677 times.
MailOnline tried to access Facebook and did not experience any issues on both desktop and on the iOS app.
