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Facebook, Instagram Experienced Outages

Facebook confirmed the outages initially picked up by Down Detector for the social media giant and its photo services program.

Users haven't necessarily "liked" being off line for hours Wednesday, but Facebook fixed the problem.
Users haven't necessarily "liked" being off line for hours Wednesday, but Facebook fixed the problem. (Facebook)

MENLO PARK, CA -- If you were having issues with Facebook or Instagram Wednesday, it wasn't not your imagination.

Facebook confirmed the issues, and its team fixed the problems.

"We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible," a Facebook spokesman told Patch Wednesday.

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Down Detector initially reported the outages on the social media giant and its photo services subsidiary.

Users from various locales have shared problems ranging from getting on to loading issues.

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Down Detector represents a real-time computer monitoring service with all the large tech accounts under its belt from Google and Verizon to Spectrum to even the U.S. Postal Service.

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