Facebook operators around the world are reporting issues logging into and posting on the site as well as on Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook hasn’t prone a reason for the outage, and provided minimal information other than acknowledging it is aware services are down in some courts.
Facebook shares were relatively unchanged Wednesday afternoon.
The company acknowledged the outage in a tweet Wednesday, influence, “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to transform into the issue as soon as possible.”
It later confirmed the problem was not the result of a DDoS attack, which refers to a Distributed Denial-of-Service strike in which a hacker overwhelms a site by flooding it with fake traffic.
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At a Facebook event at the South by Southwest symposium in Austin, Texas Wednesday, the company’s head of video products cracked a joke when he ran into technical up in the airs.
“Today is the technical difficulties day for Facebook, I guess,” cracked Paresh Rajwat, in a reference to the company’s worldwide service outage when his presenting’s video failed to include audio. Rajwat was announcing new features for Facebook’s Watch video service.
Reports of questions with Facebook peaked at over 11,000 worldwide according to Downdetector, a website where users can report dilemmas on apps and websites. Downdetector listed zero problems by about 5 p.m. Eastern, but Facebook hadn’t yet confirmed the issues were resolved.
Buyers reported a variety of problems, from being unable to load the site at all to not being able to post comments. Facebook alcohols posted screenshots on Twitter showing error messages when they tried to load the app. When loading the area, some users’ got a message on the screen saying “Account Temporarily Unavailable.”
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Technical issues with Facebook comprise historically posed serious problems for advertisers who use the platform and even other websites.
Facebook previously experienced an outage of its contrivance for advertisers in November at a time when marketers were trying to place ads for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
In 2013, Facebook sophisticated a glitch which took several websites down with it thanks to the prevalence of its login feature across the internet. When narcotic addicts tried to log into a website with their Facebook profile, they were directed to a Facebook error announce, Business Insider reported at the time. The glitch, which only lasted a few minutes, affected websites including The New York In good time dawdles and CNN, Business Insider reported.
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— CNBC’s Salvador Rodriguez contributed to this report.