Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages midday Monday, according to public statements from the three Facebook services.

“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook said on Twitter. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

At 4 pm Facebook retweeted “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible”.

One third of the world’s population uses Facebook.