Instagram down AND Facebook down: Global users are reporting outages on the social apps

Instagram down: the outage affected users across the globe (Picture: ( REUTERS ))

For anyone looking to wind down from work and scroll through Instagram and Facebook, then we have some bad news: the social apps appear to be down across the globe.

According to the website DownDetector, the problems started around 4pm (GMT) and appears to be affecting pretty much everyone.

Instagram users in Indonesia, Toronto, and India are reporting having issues with the platform.

Around 54 per cent of people are reporting issues with the news feed, whilst others they can’t log in or access the website.

Over on Facebook, the problems appear to have started around 4pm (GMT) too. Users have reported they are experiencing a total blackout on the site, whilst others are saying there are issues with the newsfeed and log in process.

WhatsApp is the other social platform that Facebook owns, but it looks like everything is functioning normally there right now.

Some people are managing to see the funny side to the major platforms being offline at the moment.

Coming to Twitter to keep up with recent scandals while #FacebookDown #Instagramdown pic.twitter.com/by60kBDlbx

— 9GAG (@9GAG)

March 13, 2019

Everyone running from Instagram to twitter to see if other peoples Insta is down lmao #instagram pic.twitter.com/jKj6bnXxR9

— Nic🌱 (@HeyNicky_)

March 13, 2019

There’s no word yet from Facebook as to why the outages are occurring.