Millions stranded as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram crash

Millions of users across the world have been left stranded after Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram crashed.

All three social media services, owned by Facebook, suffered outage around evening in Nigeria and across the world on Monday, October 4, 2021.

Facebook took to Twitter moments later to say it was aware of the outage.

"We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience," the company tweeted.

No official reason has been given for the disruption.