Social media services Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide outage.
All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be accessed over the web or smartphone apps this afternoon by users across the Sussex.
Downdetector, the website which tracks outages across the internet logged nearly 80,000 reports for WhatsApp and more than 50,000 for Facebook.
Data from the website would suggest the outage is affecting users of Facebook services across the world.
Facebook said: "We are aware some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience."
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Meta (@Meta) October 4, 2021
There’s no word yet from Facebook about what may be causing the problem or when those sites, including Messenger and WhatsApp will be operational again.
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