Facebook was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide Tuesday morning.
According to Down Detector, a website that monitors such outages, reports began around 11:30 am ET and the glitch appeared to be fixed about one hour later.
Users cited issues with the social media platform’s app and website, but what sparked the problems is not known.
The outage hit New York, Washington DC, California and other US states, Australia, China and parts of Europe.
Facebook was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide Tuesday morning. According to Down Detector, a website that monitors such outages, reports began around 11:30 am ET and the glitch appeared to be fixed about one hour later
Users reported having issues searching for people and events within the app, while others cannot log into their accounts.
‘Is it just me or what. Because I am unable to see my friend list from my home page and no one else’s either. And of course, we hop on Twitter to see what’s wrong with Facebook,’ Twitter user Amanda Savoury shared on Twitter.
Another user joked in a tweet: ‘I got some Facebook stalking to do and they down.’
However, Facebook’s status page showed ‘No known issues’ for all of its tools and platforms.
DownDector showed 58 percent of reported problems are with the app, 35 percent for the website and a small six percent are having issues logging in.
How many users impacted by the outage and what caused it is unclear.
Facebook and other social media platforms experience random glitches on what seems to be every month.
Users were having issues searching for people and events within the app, while others cannot log into their accounts
Search was showing a blank screen in their accounts. DownDector shows 58 percent of reported problems are with the app, 35 percent for the website and a small six percent are having issues logging in
However, Mark Zuckerberg’s platform was hit with a record seven-hour global outage in October 2021 that cost the company an estimated $ 100 million in lost revenue, an insider had claimed.
The outage impacted Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger and was caused when a faulty update disconnected its servers from the internet.
Engineers had to travel to its Santa Clara data center to fix the glitch in person – at the time, much of Facebook’s staff was still working from home.
Facebook issued a statement saying the cause of the problem was a configuration change to the company’s ‘backbone routers’, which coordinate network traffic between the tech giant’s data centers.
‘This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,’ the statement said.
