In news that will surely be greeted warmly at Twitter HQ, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger have all gone down in a huge global outage. Tens of thousands of users have reported issues accessing the four Facebook-owned platforms, according to the DownDetector website. Reports of problems began flooding in at around 17.30 CET. Users have been receiving error messages when they try to access the services. Facebook said in a tweet that it was aware of the issues and was “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.” We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing…

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