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Facebook is hit by massive outage in Australia as bizarre technical glitch messes with users’ newsfeeds bombarded with random posts to celebrities: ‘Something isn’t right’
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Millions of Australians have been hit by a bizarre technical glitch on Facebook which has plunged other social media sites into meltdown.
Users of the social media giant have reported widespread issues on their Facebook news feed.
Downdetecter.com.au detected a massive spike in reports of the social media app from around 4pm Wednesday with 95 per cent of complaints about the feed.
Millions of Facebook users are experiencing a bizarre technical glitch with their news feed
Downdetecter.com.au detected a massive spike in reports of the social media app around 4pm
Many users have complained their news feed is littered with hundreds of people posting on celebrity profiles, including Taylor Swift, Nicky Minaj, Harry Styles, Eminem and Joe Rogan.
Technology expert Trevor Long tweeted: ‘People reporting their Facebook feed being overtaken by random posts to celebrities and pages that we’ve not normally seen. Someone at Facebook is scrambling to reverse a change I bet.’
Facebook is yet to confirm any issue.
The outage has sparked everything from mass confusion and frustration to amusement.
‘Is anyone else’s Facebook feed completely borked? Seeing everyone’s comments to other people and other pages. The (timeline) is even more rubbish than it usually is,’ one man tweeted.
Those with a sense of humour used to glitch to engage to the wider Facebook community while others posted memes making fun of the outage.