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The social media outage began at about 11am, according to the website Down Detector, and also hit WhatsApp and Instagram.

The outage hit the UK, France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, and impacted on tens of thousands of people reported.

Pages were either not loading, or users are unable to post.

There were also issues in Greece, Italy and parts of the United States.

(Image: DOWN DETECTOR)

(Image: DOWN DETECTOR)

Some Brit users were hit by the WhatsApp outage, that has hit Italy and the Netherlands most severely, Down Detector reports.

Meanwhile Instagram went down in Britain, Paris, Berlin, Italy and Greece.

After the outage was resolved at about 2pm a spokesman for Facebook said: "Earlier today, some people may have experienced trouble connecting to the family of apps.

"The issue has since been resolved; we're sorry for any inconvenience."

One user said: "Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are down. Thank you Zuckerburg, great service."

A second chipped in: "Facebook, we have a problem."

While a third joked: "Facebook's down, we all gonna die. Or I'll just go and walk the dog."