Facebook, Instagram down, Twitter has a field day

Facebook and Instagram were not available to users on Thursday evening in India and other parts of the world, People shared their agony on Twitter.

Facebook and Instagram were not available to users on Thursday evening in India and some other parts of the world, People shared their horror on Twitter.

The two social media platforms owned by Facebook, Inc were reportedly down across the world on Thursday evening.

While the Facebook login page said: Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. Instagram simply admitted: Oops, an error occurred.

As usual, as soon as these platforms went down, the users rushed to Twitter to figure out what is happening. And within minutes #FacebookDown and #InstragramDown were trending worldwide.

The cause of Facebook and Instagram downtime is not immediately known.