A Facebook outage appears to be affecting a huge number of users with more than 12,000 reports posted to the website status service Down Detector.
“Earlier today, a networking issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook services. We quickly investigated and started restoring access within about an hour, and we have nearly fixed the issue for everyone. We’re sorry for the inconvenience,” a Facebook spokesperson told the Daily Dot.
Reports started coming in early Wednesday morning and peaked at around 11:00am ET. Down Detector’s map shows the outage hitting North America and Europe the hardest with a significant number of users in Japan, South America, and Southeast Asia also having problems.
A few of my colleagues at the Daily Dot are experiencing several different issues with both personal account pages and Facebook’s Business Manager service. There are also reported issues for Facebook-owned Instagram, though they don’t appear to be as widespread. Oddly, Facebook’s status page says its platform is “healthy.”
People are struggling to cope, turning to the only place to find solace: Twitter jokes.
https://twitter.com/RachelxEmma/status/918149545405665280
Facebook is down, I repeat Facebook is down.
— Jay White (@jaywhite_1) October 11, 2017
*Runs to Twitter to check it's not just me* #Facebook #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/YYnoX7bIja
Facebook and Instagram are down… and have been for the last hour. Nobody panic! #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/SZP3vxCiJs
— All Tee All Shade (@AllTee_AllShade) October 11, 2017
Live scenes as Facebook and Instagram crash. #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/lza22ylmUV
— The Vimto Kid (@AlexWatt187) October 11, 2017
People turning to twitter like #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/NwYPueZyx8
— Superdry (@Superdry) October 11, 2017
Log: Hour 3. Supplies are dwindling. Morale is low. People running around streets asking strangers to like their pictures.#facebookdown
— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) October 11, 2017
Other services are joking about going back to defeated rival MySpace.
**blows dust off MySpace account** #facebookdown
— comedycentral (@ComedyCentral) October 11, 2017
#FacebookDown has left us no choice. We're back on MySpace, baby! https://t.co/i0v8w4AOIQ pic.twitter.com/q3aNP2ggMb
— PCMag (@PCMag) October 11, 2017
The social giant’s team posted an update on its developer page admitting it’s experiencing an increased level of API errors. It’s currently investigating.