Facebook, Instagram Suffer Widespread Outage Overnight; Tinder, Hipchat Also Go Down

Facebook and Instagram went down early Tuesday morning as a major snowstorm hit the Northeast. Reports on social media indicate that Tindr and Hipchat were also down.

Users worldwide were affected by the outage, The Associated Press reported, many of whom took to Twitter to express their outrage (mock and in some cases genuine) and crack jokes.

After about 40 minutes, Facebook and Instagram were back online.

Lizard Squad, the hacking collective that claimed responsibility for taking down the Malaysian Airlines website on Sunday, suggested on Twitter that it was also responsible for the social media outage.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, the Facebook outage led to the usual snark, including #pray4facebook and #ThingsIDidWhenFacebookWasDown hashtags.

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