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 and Tuesday, they headed to social media to pass the time — until multiple sites suffered outages, spawning jokes about 

As millions of people in the Northeast hunkered down ahead of a storm that battered coastal New England with heavy snow on Monday and Tuesday, they headed to social media to pass the time — until multiple sites suffered outages, spawning jokes about 

Facebook and Instagram went down early Tuesday morning as a major snowstorm hit the Northeast. Reports on social media indicate that Tindr and Hipchat were also down. Users worldwide were affected by the outage, The Associated Press reported, many