THUNDER BAY – UPDATE – For Facebook users in Thunder Bay their social media withdrawals have ended. Facebook is back up again after being down for several hours.
For Facebook users in Europe, parts of the Middle East and parts of Asia, the social media giant is still down as of 9:45 am EDT (GMT -5).
Earlier: Facebook is down for many users across the globe this morning. As well Instagram and Whatsapp are also down.
The outages started earlier this morning. As of 07:30 am there is no update from Facebook as to the status of the outage.
The efforts to communicate have taken many Facebook users to Twitter.
NEWS REPORT: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are reportedly down worldwide.
Many are using Twitter to find out what’s happening.
Retweet for awareness! #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/Y5h3qXIIbS
— Peggy Dunn (@pdunn_ohio) April 14, 2019
#facebookdown
Everything is down
Me: checked wifi
-disconnected wifi
-re-connected wifi
-restarted phone
-checked messenger
-checked Facebook
-asked everyone in the housefinally checking Twitter
Me: pic.twitter.com/UnCGRj01Gt— Junaid Ahmad (@Junaidahmadjm) April 14, 2019
NetNewsLedger will update as this develops.