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Facebook appears to be down for some users around the world this evening (September 3).

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp users are in a frenzy after many attempted to log in today only to find that the sites were down.

The outage appears to have affected users around the world, with thousands of reports within the first hour.

(Image: Down Detector.com)

Users took to Twitter to express their grief about the issue, which seems to have crashed both the mobile application and the desktop versions of the Facebook-owned sites.

Users of the popular social network are reporting issues logging in to the website or updating posts.

A message shown to users trying to access the website reads: "Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minute."

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