If you’re unable to access Facebook or Instagram, you’re not alone. The social network and the popular pictures/video sharing app are both experiencing an outage on Wednesday, with many frustrated users venting on Twitter.
“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” a Facebook spokesperson told TheWrap.
Facebook has been down since about 10:15 a.m. PT for many users, with downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages, receiving more than 10,000 reported problems between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. PT.
Some users who are unable to access Facebook from their desktop computers have been able to use its app without issue on an iPhone. According to The Independent, many Facebook users were greeted with a message that said that the site was “down for maintenance” when they visited on Wednesday. Instagram, meanwhile, has had difficulty loading user profiles and refreshing pictures on its timeline.
Rather than wait for Instagram or Facebook to go back online, many people — including Soulja Boy — raced to Twitter to joke and complain.
Facebook???? Instagram???? Atleast the Soulja App isn’t down ??♂️
— Soulja Boy (Big Draco) (@souljaboy) March 13, 2019
Hello to everyone who has come back to twitter while Facebook and Instagram are down. Yes everything is still terrible and yes we are still all arguing with each other.
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) March 13, 2019
Me: Instagram and Facebook are down.
Wife: Oh, no. You'll have to interact with people in person.
Me: No. There's still Twitter.
— James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) March 13, 2019
When #instagram is not working … Everybody run to twitter to check on it…
— ?? Bane Bitter-Cane ? (@bane_ddotart) March 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/HeyNicky_/status/1105872732158394374
Everyone running to twitter to see if facebook and instagram are down pic.twitter.com/lXCcHdASFx
— VT (@VTOfficial) March 13, 2019
We’ll update you when both are back up and running at full capacity.