Outage tracker Downdetector was viewing outages in densely populated areas like Washington and Paris, with issues being reported from around 1545 GMT.
Downdetector depicted that there were more than 20,000 occurrences of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority stated that Facebook services had been affected globally due to an outage. “Further details are being collected,” a representative for the authority said.
Users trying to access Facebook in affected regions were showed the message: “Something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook spokesman Andy Stone stated on Twitter
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience,” he said.
Facebook has encountered similar extensive outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July.
“If your game isn’t running as usual please note that there’s been an issue with Facebook login servers and the moment this gets fixed all will be back to normal,” puzzle game app Match Masters mentioned on its Twitter account.
