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Facebook, Instagram were down most of Wednesday around the globe for many users

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Facebook platform users hit Twitter with #facebookdown Wednesday, after losing access to Facebook, Instagram and Messenger across the world.

The massively popular social network started having problems at around noon Eastern time, with issues popping up across Facebook proper, Facebook Messenger and Instagram around the world.

After being out much of Wednesday, Facebook began to come back to life early Thursday morning after midnight ET for many users.

Roland Dobbins, an engineer with network performance firm Netscout said Wednesday that the outage was due to an accidental traffic jam issue with a European internet company that collided with Facebook and other websites.

As with nearly every Facebook outage, users headed to Twitter with the hashtag #facebookdown quickly becoming the top trending topic in the United States.

We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.

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