Worldwide, many users report late Wednesday afternoon that they could not log in on Facebook and Facebook Messenger. Also with Instagram it came apparently to disturbances.

With hashtags like #FacebookDown or #InstagramDown Twitter users from countries like the USA, Thailand, but also Germany have shared screenshots of error messages from Facebook and Instagram. Also numerous Memes and GIFs are spread, which turn around the network disturbances.

According to the data of the portal "AlleStörung.de", there was an accumulation of malfunction reports at 17 o'clock on both Instagram and Facebook. The background of the problems is still unclear.