Instagram said it was working to fix the problem as quickly as possible.

Instagram came back just before 8 p.m. ET.

All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were not loading as of early Sunday morning.

All the social network said Thursday was that the outages, which affected users and advertisers worldwide, resulted from a “server configuration change.” It offered no further details.

Reports that users were unable to access Facebook and Instagram surfaced Wednesday.

Facebook is reporting outages all over Canada and the United States.

Facebook said a networking issue was to blame for a temporary outage to its social media network, as well as Instagram and WhatsApp, which are owned by Facebook Inc.

Social media users across the world are reporting outage problems with Facebook and Instagram.

It’s unclear what caused the connection issue for some users.

It was just after 12 p.m. ET Thursday – prime time for posting lunch-related status updates – when Facebook experienced a short service outage.