Facebook users are complaining that their feeds are being flooded with posts from people they don’t know posting to celebrity pages.
The social network has been having problems since 7:08 AM BST, according to website Downdetector, which monitors website outages.
Over 2,000 people in the UK have reported problems, with 77 per cent of those claiming the issue is with their feeds, Downdetector shows.
Users in the US, Australia and elsewhere in the world are also reporting the problem.
Facebook users flooded to Twitter to share their experiences with the bizarre glitch, which the site’s owner, Meta, is yet to comment on
Facebook has been having problems since 7:08 AM BST, according to website Downdetector, which monitors website outages.
Over 2,000 people have reported problems, with 77 per cent of those claiming this issue is with their feeds. Users appear to be affecting across the UK
Facebook users flooded to Twitter to share their experiences of the bizarre glitch, with several questioning whether the social network was broken or had been hacked.
The site’s owner, Meta, is yet to comment on the issue.
Twitter user @maymaywala said: ‘@facebook is down or what???? My feed is spammed with what random people are commenting on celebrity pages.’
Another user, @Zeeshan0961, said: ‘What the hell is this @facebook? My whole timeline is Full with people posting On Celebrities walls.’
‘Facebook glitch!! What’s happening’: Users are quick to jump to Twitter whenever there’s an outage
One Twitter user, @CallMeElektra, took a screenshot of her Facebook feed, showing a random person posting on the page of rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Another person posted shots of random posts to the pages of musicians Eminem and Billie Eilish, claiming it had affected his ‘entire feed’.
It seems to be a global issue – one user based in Melbourne, Australia, had seen a post of someone posting to the page of American actor Vin Diesel.
Another affected user shared their experience from New Delhi in India, saying Facebook is ‘acting drunk and funny’.
Facebook users flooded to Twitter to share their experiences of the bizarre glitch, which the site’s owner, Meta, is yet to comment on
It appears the glitch is not affecting every Facebook user.
It’s possible it may be related to long-term changes that are being made to Facebook for users globally.
Meta is splitting the Facebook homepage into two separate tabs – ‘Feeds’, which is focused on chronological posts, and ‘Home’, which focuses on promoted posts.
This post first appeared on Dailymail.co.uk
