By CBS3 Staff
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are experiencing worldwide outages. Netblocks.org confirmed that approximately 80% of users are unable to connect to the social media sites.
Down Detector, a website that tracks when online services are down, reported that Facebook has been having problems since 6:36 a.m. Sunday.
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Whatsapp Messenger, a mobile text messaging app for smart phones, is also experiencing issues.
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