Facebook and Instagram were down for a few minutes

NEW DELHI: One of the biggest social media platforms, Facebook was down for sometime. Instagram too were down alongside its parent company. 

According to some user reports, the social media giant was showing an error when posting anything on the news feed. Both the desktop and the app users were facing issues.

On posting anything from the app, Facebook showed the message "We are unable to post your update." The text is followed by two options - 'Edit post' and 'Report a problem'. On desktop the company showed an error message saying that, "There was a problem updating your status. Please try again in a few minutes."

In addition, some users were also not able to 'Like' or 'Comment' on any of the posts shown in the Facebook news feed. It is not clear as to what caused the issue. Both the services are not up and running.

According to the Down Detector's live outage map, Facebook was down in the US and the UK as well. Some parts of Australia, Japan and South East Asia too were affected by the outage. Some users on the website also mentioned that they are not able to log in to the website.

Facebook-owned photo sharing app, Instagram was also down, according to users. Based on the Down Detector website's report majority of the users were not able to log in to their Instagram accounts in the US, India, UK, Indonesia and Malaysia. Some Instagram users were also not able to refresh their feed. In addition, few users were not able to 'Like' or post a comment on any post. Posting images on the platform also showed an error with a message 'Photo wasn't posted'.