San Francisco sources have stated that many users across the globe faced outage on Facebook and Instagram, with a flash message from the company saying the website undergoing "required maintenance".
According to sources, late on Saturday, users started to complain that they were unable to access their social media accounts when they attempted to login. According to Down Detector, a website that tracks Internet outages, most users reported a total blackout, while some could access the site but was unable to load pages or upload pictures. Moreover some could access the site but were unable to load certain pages or upload pictures.
Accordingly the technical glitch affected both the desktop and mobile
users across the world, including the Europe, the US, Brazil, Japan and
Australia. At its peak, the website was receiving 1,869 reports of outages.
Users on Facebook owned Instagram also reported the technical issues which were
later resolved.
