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Facebook Outage Disrupts Access Worldwide

A sharp spike on DownDetector coincided with 'Account Temporarily Unavailable' errors for many users.

Overview

  • Reports of problems began around 21:40 GMT, with a rapid surge in UK and US complaints on DownDetector minutes later.
  • Nearly 9,780 U.S. outage reports were logged around 22:00 GMT, indicating thousands affected across multiple countries.
  • Many users were blocked from logging in and received a notice saying accounts were temporarily unavailable due to a site issue.
  • Some users said the browser version failed while the mobile app still worked, and others experienced intermittent access.
  • The Mirror contacted Meta for more information, and no official cause or resolution had been issued at the time of reporting.