Overview
- Users across multiple countries reported being unable to access Facebook on desktop on Sunday, July 19, with many seeing an "Account Temporarily Unavailable" error that prevented logins.
- Outage-tracking site Downdetector registered a sharp spike of thousands of user reports at the incident's peak, with a majority of complaints pointing to the Facebook website rather than mobile apps.
- Reports showed Instagram and Messenger experienced related problems for thousands of users, with some regions seeing intermittent mobile access while desktop browsers remained blocked.
- Meta had not provided a public explanation for the outage at the time of reporting, and standard end-user fixes such as clearing cache or switching browsers were unlikely to resolve a site-side failure.
- The disruption echoes past large Meta outages that were later traced to central network or configuration failures, underscoring how a problem in shared backend systems can simultaneously affect multiple apps and millions of people.