Facebook, Instagram services resume after half an hour of system shutdown

Social media tool Facebook was down for over half an hour on Saturday evening, leaving people in the lurch. Several people were unable to log in to their profiles, while others struggled to share images or posts.

Facebook and the web version of Instagram, the photo uploading software was down.  

According to UK site Express, One Facebook user posted a message online saying they'd been faced with a message that reads: "Facebook Will Be Back Soon"

"Thanks for your patience as we improve the site."

Twitter is also packed with Facebook users who are struggling to get online with many receiving similar maintenance messages.

Earlier this week Facebook was hit by a major outage which left fans of the social site unable to access their personal pages.