Instagram and Facebook have gone done across the world, affecting thousands

If your Instagram and Facebook news feeds are not refreshing, you are not alone.

Thousands of users across the world were hit with an outage on both platforms Thursday afternoon, with many located in the US, Europe, South America and parts of Canada .

DownDetector shows the Instagram outage is plaguing more users than its parent company.

DownDetector, a site that monitors outages on social media platforms, websites and online services, began to show issue reports regarding Instagram and Facebook Thursday afternoon.

There appears to be more users in the US plagued with issues for both sites, compared to other countries.

However, the Instagram outage is hitting parts of California, New York City and southern Florida all highlighted red on DownDetector’s outage map.

Across the Atlantic, parts of Ireland, Portugal, the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden seem to be experiencing an outage.

Facebook’s issues do not seem as widespread, but are along California, hitting mid-west states, southern Florida and parts of the north east in the US.

In Europe, Facebook is glitching in parts of Portugal, the UK, Hungary, Sweden and The Netherlands.

It is not clear if the two are connect at the moment and neither social media sites have addressed the issues.

Daily Mail