Facebook, Legate and Instagram apps displayed on a smartphone
Adam Jeffery | CNBC
Facebook’s family of apps experienced a ‘major outage’ Thursday, with consumers from around the world taking to social media to complain that they were having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram in picky detail.
Instagram, in a post on Twitter, said it is aware that people are having issues accessing Facebook’s family of apps, and told it was working to restore service on Instagram as quickly as possible.
Facebook, in a statement to CNBC, said the outage was due to an issue in one of its essential software systems. The company is now monitoring for a full recovery, it said.
“Earlier today, an issue in one of our central software patterns caused many people to have trouble accessing Facebook’s family of apps,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “We instantly investigated, started restoring access, and we’re now monitoring for full recovery. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.”
At one point there were numerous than 12,000 reports of issues with Facebook, according to the website Downdetector.