By Charlie Moore For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 01:34 GMT, 14 March 2019 | Updated: 01:34 GMT, 14 March 2019
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Police issued a plea for social media users not call them when Facebook and Instagram went down on Thursday morning.
Thousands of users found themselves unable to connect to social media for eight hours until 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Time.
Police in Canterbury, New Zealand wrote on Twitter: 'We know. Our Facebook and Instagram haven't been working either.
'Unfortunately we cannot do anything about this because, you know, they're based in America and we're the Police. So please don't call us to report this. Pretty please.'
A slew of Facebook -owned social media sites are running again following hours-long outages worldwide on Wednesday. Outage hotspots for Facebook are shown in the map above
Police issued a plea for social media users not call them when Facebook and Instagram went down on Thursday morning
Joining the fun, South Australia State Emergency Service wrote on Twitter: 'We know Facebook & Instagram are down. Please don't call triple zero to let us know'
A spokesman told Daily Mail Australia that police had not received any calls and the message was sent as a joke.
Joining the fun, South Australia State Emergency Service wrote on Twitter: 'We know Facebook & Instagram are down. Please don't call triple zero to let us know.'
On Thursday morning Sunrise presenter Natalie Barr said Queensland police had issued a warning to dismayed social media users not to call Triple Zero.
But a Queensland Police spokesman told Daily Mail Australia no such warning was issued and they
