Her final text contained just a single word, but it haunts Jean Hanlon's (pictured) family to this day. 'Help', the message read.

Instagram has gone down today, with thousands of people worldwide complaining of issues.

Users are unable to access Facebook via the app or website.

On Downdetector.com, there are currently over 6,100 user-generated reports of an outage after 8:30am.

Instagram have not released a statement about the outage. 

More to come.