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Ever the intrepid tech journalist, our own US Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff was quick to ask Andy Stone what’s going on.
Can you tell us what happened? It seems unusual for all services to go down together.March 5, 2024
No official Facebook statement has landed in our inboxes, but Andy Stone, Communications Director at Meta, tweeted (or is that X-ed) that: “We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.”
We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.March 5, 2024
As one might expect X, the social media site formerly known as Facebook, is awash with people flagging Facebook outages.
Has Facebook and Messenger logged you out and then rejects your password?Don’t panic, you’re not alone, LOADS of people seem to be experiencing this right now.I guess we just gotta wait and see what the heck this is 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/YiQz17AeXRMarch 5, 2024
“Has Facebook” Yes it has 😳😞🤔😡 pic.twitter.com/PsipryfCrGMarch 5, 2024
Ah! News Editor Mark Wilson has just pointed out that WhatsApp has only 300 or so outage reports, while Facebook’s outage reports are at 250,000.
So it looks like Meta’s main social network is bearing the brunt of the outage.
it’s hard to tell, but it would appear that these outages are partially region-specific. WhatsApp and Instagram are fine for me, but Facebook isn’t letting me log in.
However, others are saying they can’t get into Instagram and Downdetector is flagging WhatsApp outages.
Apparently WhatsApp users are reporting outages too, but my WhatsApp app is working fine. This is odd.
Taking a look at Downdetector and Facebook has just had a huge outage spike.
So when I try to login to Facebook or Facebook Messenger I get a pop up saying an “unexpected error occurred” and no joy in getting around it.
