Social media users were left frustrated on Sunday as Facebook and Instagram suffered outages.
Users in the UAE were greeted during the evening by a message on Facebook saying "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."
Others were told it would be back after "required maintenance", and were unable to share or post content.
Instagram users meanwhile were unable to log into their accounts, although at 8.15pm UAE time the service appeared to be functioning smoothly.
The Down Detector website reported issues with Facebook from 9.36am EDT, with its live outage map showing the worst of the problems in the Far East, India, Australia, Malaysia and United States.
Many people took to Twitter instead to vent their frustrations and to confirm that they had been prevented from accessing Facebook and Instagram.
The Express said that the outage monitoring website Down Detector logged more than 7,000 reports issues on Facebook. Down Detector said that Facebook started having problems about 9:30 a.m., Eastern time.
While complaints slowed early afternoon, Eastern and functions slowly returned to normal, some problems continued to persist
There was no comment made by Facebook on what was causing the problems beyond the error messages when users tried to log in.
I saw this issue at 11:40 PM Malaysian time. This issue got resolved around 12:30 AM. Total 45 minutes Facebook site was down. Only web site was down, fb messenger was working.
