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UPDATE: It looks like the issues affecting Facebook Messenger users today was short lived. After recording a huge spike in Messenger down reports, Down Detector has now seen a big drop off in the amount of reported issues – which indicates whatever was affecting users has now been resolved.

ORIGINAL: Messenger down reports are surging in today with users reporting issues with the popular Facebook app.

Independent outage monitor Down Detector has recorded a huge spike in Facebook Messenger down reports which began around 4pm UK time.

At the time of writing, Down Detector UK has registered a peak of around 2,000 reports of Messenger down.

While there has also been a spike in Instagram down and Facebook down reports today.

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As the reported issues with Messenger hit users took to Twitter to talk about the problems they were facing.

One tweeted: “Is Messenger down???”

While another posted: “Messenger down”.

One added: “Me going twitter to see if messenger was actually down”.

Another wrote: “Here on twitter because Messenger’s down”.

And one added: “Suddenly I’m on Twitter because Facebook is down atm #facebookdown #messenger”.

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