'Technical issue' resolved after Facebook and Instagram go down

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Issues accessing Facebook and Instagram have been resolved after social media users reported problems accessing the sites. 

Many reported outages for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp , with all three owned by Meta, Facebook's parent company.

A Meta spokesperson told the Irish Examiner that the problem was caused by a "technical issues".

According to Downdetector, a site that tracks interruptions to websites, there was a spike in reported outages on Facebook-owned services this morning.

As of 10am, around 2,000 people have reported outages on both Instagram and Facebook.

More than 600 have reported issues with WhatsApp on Downdetector.

"Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing our apps and services," said the spokesperson

"We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologise for any inconvenience."

Last year, the sites were down for several hours affecting all of Facebook's services.

It said at the time that the cause of the outage was a configuration change to the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between the company’s data centres, which had a cascading effect, bringing all Facebook services to a halt.