The world's largest social media networks Facebook and Instagram, as well as messaging application WhatsApp, suffered massive global outages on Sunday. <br />For more on this and other news around the world, let's turn to Hong Yoo.<br />I don't really use any of these platforms anymore,... but it must've given millions of users headaches...<br />Yes, Mark, the three Facebook-owned services were unavailable on Sunday for more than three hours starting from 6:30AM Eastern Standard time.<br />The website Down Detector reported that thousands of people complained about the services not allowing them access.<br />News feeds refused to refresh for both Facebook and Instagram and the main Facebook.com domain was unavailable for more than two hours.<br />Messages could not be sent or received via WhatsApp and same was true for Facebook's chat service.<br />During these hours of frustration, users turned to Twitter and hashtags such as #FacebookDown, #instagramdown, and #whatsappdown were trending globally.<br />The services appeared to be back up and running for most users by 9AM Eastern Standard time.<br />Sunday's service outage comes just a month after its longest outages in March, when users could not access the site for more than 24 hours.<br />Facebook had blamed a "server configuration change". <br />
