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Benjamin Wright

Is EE down? Is Vodafone down? Huge spike in outage reports after mass social media outage

Phone users have reported problems with their network in the wake of the massive Facebook outage.

The social media giant began experiencing problems on Monday evening - with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger all affected.

As that happened, scores of problems were also reported by smartphone users - with hundreds of reports made about EE, Vodafone, Three and o2 on the website DownDetector.

At 5pm, there were more than 2,800 reports of outages on EE.

Some users reported problems not being able to use the internet on their phones browser at all - while other say usage is intermittent, with pages partially loading.

It is thought that the outages reported could be a knock on effect of Facebook going down - with people who would be on Facebook suddenly using their internet browsers on their phones all at once instead.

Vodafone confirmed it had been affected.

A spokesman said: "There is currently a global outage across several social media platforms. This is impacting our data network performance. We will continue to post updates as they become available."

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