Facebook and Instagram have millions of users worldwide (Picture: Rex)
Facebook and Instagram have suffered massive outages, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access the popular social media platforms.
The issue appears to be global.
Within half an hour of the issues first appearing on Down Detector, the number of reports had passed 90,000 for Facebook, and 15,000 for Instagram.
On Facebook the outage appeared to be affecting all platforms, but 89% of reports regarding Instagram highlighted the app – but it has far fewer desktop users than Facebook.
Both of the Meta-owned sites have suffered serious outages in recent weeks, but never at the same time.
Metro.co.uk has contacted Meta for comment.
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