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Facebook services including Whatsapp and Instagram suffer global outage

The Facebook application is seen on a phone screen August 3, 2017. [Reuters]

Facebook Inc said on Friday its services were being affected by a number of issues, after nearly a million people across the world reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram.

“Multiple teams are working on it (the outage), and we’ll update you when we can,” Facebook’s gaming unit said in a tweet.

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