The California giant which has more than two billion users acknowledged the outage after users noted on Twitter they could not access Facebook or had limited functionality.
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and Instagram users lost access to the social network's applications in parts of the world Wednesday as a result of an outage of undetermined origin.
A short time later, Facebook indicated the outage was not related to an attack aimed at overwhelming the network.
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