Facebook, Instagram sites go down

Published Jan 27, 2015

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Millions of social network users were left stranded when both Facebook and Instagram went down unexpectedly.

Sapa-AP reports that the outage affected users in the United States, Asia and Australia.

The social media giant's Instagram service was also inaccessible.

Instagram said on its Twitter account that it is aware of an outage and is working on a fix. Facebook's landing page simply stated they were aware of the problem and working to resolve it.

Twitter was abuzz with comments from users asking for reasons.

@TotesMcGotes tweeted: BREAKING: Murder suicide rate soars as Facebook and instagram are down and people actually have to socialize.

Facebook had 1.25 billion monthly active users at the end of September.

IOL, Sapa-AP

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