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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
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Dayna McAlpine

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger down: Social media apps crash for users across UK

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger have all crashed this morning and are currently down for users across the UK and Europe.

According to Down Detector, the issues with some of the world's most popular social media apps started at around 9am, and are affecting users across the UK and Europe, with western Europe appearing to be most affected (sorry readers).

While the reason for the issue remains unclear, of those who reported problems, 80 per cent said they weren't receiving messages, while 20 per cent couldn't log-in.

Unsurprisingly, several frustrated users have taken to Twitter to question what's going on and find out if they're the only ones unable to scroll their favourite app.

One user wrote: "Is Facebook Messenger down? I cannot send and receive messages!"

Another said: "Either Facebook messenger is down on my phone or my wifi is extremely poor this morn. Let me text my friends back!".

Edinburgh Live tried to access Instagram and Facebook on an iPhone and were unable to load messages on both apps.

Edinburgh Live have contacted Facebook for comment.

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