Facebook is back online after a outage left users unable to search for friends and events in the app
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Facebook is back online after a brief outage that prevented users from searching for friends and events
- Facebook experienced a global outage that impacted its app and website
- Problems surfaced around 11:30 a.m. ET, preventing users from searching for friends
Facebook was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Tuesday morning.
According to Down Detector, a website that monitors such outages, reports began around 11:30 a.m. ET and the outage appeared to have been fixed about an hour later.
Users mentioned problems with the social media platform’s app and website, but what caused the problems is not known.
The outage affected New York, Washington DC, California and other US states, Australia, China and parts of Europe.
Facebook was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Tuesday morning. According to Down Detector, a website that monitors such outages, reports began around 11:30 a.m. ET and the outage appeared to have been fixed about an hour later.
Users reported having trouble searching for people and events on the app, while others were unable to log into their accounts.
‘Is it just me or something. Because I can’t see my friends list from my home page and no one else’s. And of course we jump on Twitter to see what’s wrong with Facebook,” Twitter user Amanda Savory shared on Twitter.
Another user joked in a tweet, “I’ve got some Facebook stalking to do and they’re down.”
However, Facebook’s status page showed “No known issues” for all of its tools and platforms.
DownDector showed that 58 percent of the reported problems have to do with the app, 35 percent with the website and just under six percent have problems logging in.
How many users are affected by the outage and what caused it is unclear.
Facebook and other social media platforms are experiencing random outages on what seems to be every month.
Users had trouble searching for people and events in the app, while others couldn’t log into their accounts
Search showed a blank screen in their accounts. DownDector shows that 58 percent of the reported problems are related to the app, 35 percent to the website and just under six percent have problems logging in
However, Mark Zuckerberg’s platform was hit in October 2021 by a record seven-hour global outage that cost the company an estimated $100 million in lost revenue, an insider had claimed.
The outage affected Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger and was caused when a faulty update disconnected the internet.
Engineers had to travel to the Santa Clara data center to deal with the outage in person — at the time, much of Facebook’s workforce was still working from home.
Facebook released a statement saying the cause of the problem was a configuration change in the company’s “backbone routers,” which coordinate network traffic between the tech giant’s data centers.
“This network traffic disruption had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a standstill” the explanation said.