Theyโ€™re two of the most popular social media sites, but it seems that both Facebook and Instagram have crashed this afternoon.

According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 14:15 GMT, and are affecting users across the UK.

While the reason for the outage remains unclear, of those who reported issues about Instagram, 74% said they had problems with the News feed, 14% with Stories, and 10% with the website.

Meanwhile, of those who reported issues with Facebook, 65% struggled to log-in, 22% couldnโ€™t see pictures, and 11% had a total blackout.

When trying to access Facebook, some users have been met with an error message, reading: โ€œFacebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes.โ€

While the reason for the outage remains unclear, many frustrated users have taken to Twitter to discuss the problems.

One user tweeted: โ€œAnyone elseโ€™s Instagram down? Like I got WiFi but itโ€™s saying canโ€™t refresh feed and wonโ€™t load stories and my page ainโ€™t loading. Same with Facebook. It wonโ€™t let me add people back and canโ€™t refresh the page.โ€

Another wrote: โ€œ#instagramdown. Cue all the tweets about having to interact with friends & family.โ€

And one joked: โ€œBlack Fridayย hitting hard on Facebook.โ€

Mirror Online has contacted Facebook for comment.

Weโ€™ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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