Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are down for many users worldwide, including Hong Kong. 

According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram.

Meanwhile, the social-media giant's instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 3,000 users.

Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users.

The Standard could not access Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp past midnight. 

(Staff and Reuters)