Facebook, Instagram briefly go down; Twitter freaks out

Popular photo and video sharing platform Instagram, owned by Facebook, acknowledged the problem tweeting, “We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience.”. As millions of people in the Northeast hunkered down ahead of a storm that battered coastal New England with heavy snow on Monday … Read more

Facebook Is Down On Web And Mobile [Update: It's Coming Back After 20 Minutes]

At around 3:40 P.M. Eastern Time, Facebook went completely dark, preventing users from logging in and gaining access to their news feeds. Downtime tracking websites DownForEveryoneOrJustMe and IsSiteDownRightNow also reported the outage, with  THOUSANDS of people across the world have been affected as Facebook has gone down this evening. At around 3:40 P.M. Eastern Time, … Read more

LA residents call 911 when Facebook goes down

LOS ANGELES – Facebook was down for about 30 minutes Friday morning and officials said the 911 calls flooded their lines. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's office even tweeted about the incident, reminding the public the  LOS ANGELES – Facebook was down for about 30 minutes Friday morning and officials said the 911 calls flooded … Read more