Facebook’s services Instagram and Facebook were hit by a major outage on Thursday as users complain they could not use the Apps.

Only WhatsApp seems to have escaped the global outage and appears to have successfully stayed online.

According to Independent UK, the problems were seen across the world, though did not appear to affect all users the same. Some said they were still able to see parts of each app, while others reported that the services appeared to be working as normal.

The outage recalls the major problems over summer, during which the entire Facebook suits of products went offline for almost a day.

While Facebook hasn’t officially acknowledged the issue, the platform’s status page for developers has finally acknowledged the outage.

Bizarrely, it claims it has been going on for 18 hours. Really it’s more like three.

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