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Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-13 06:23pm
by FaxModem1
The Verge
Facebook and Instagram are down for some users around the world
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While you can open the apps, they’re missing major functions
By Shannon Liao@Shannon_Liao Mar 13, 2019, 1:17pm EDT
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Facebook and Instagram appear to be partially down for some users around the world today. While you can open both platforms, it looks like you can’t send or receive messages on either platform, and you can’t post new content either.

WhatsApp appeared to be fine for many people, but users in Paraguay, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, and more note that they are experiencing issues with sending messages. DownDetector indicates that those in Brazil were experiencing the most severe outages.

We tested multiple accounts at The Verge, and found that Messenger couldn’t load at all on desktop, although the mobile app was working. Instagram was worse: posts weren’t loading, Instagram Stories were down, and direct messages and the button to post new content were also not working. Facebook’s ad section was not functioning either, and it led to an internal error when you tried to buy an ad.

About an hour after users noted the outage, Facebook responded on Twitter. It also noted that “the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.”


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@facebook
We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

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Instagram on desktop as of 1PM ET.
According to DownDetector, it looks like the outages are mainly in New England; Texas; Seattle, Washington; parts of Latin America, including Peru; the UK; India; and the Philippines. Users have written in from Canada, Las Vegas, and Turkey to note outages there as well. We’ve reached out to Facebook and Instagram to learn more.

It now looks like Oculus is also down. One user in California wrote in to The Verge, “Nobody can log in to any multiplayer games purchased through the Oculus store. They also can’t access their Oculus Home environments.” Users also reported being unable to buy games from the Oculus store.


Oculus Support

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We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing and using Oculus. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience while we work through this.

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Other users noted that attempting to use Facebook to sign into apps like Tinder or Spotify wasn’t working either. Attempting to do so would bring up an error saying this feature isn’t available right now. If you were already signed into Spotify, it appears that your login is still valid, but once you sign out, you’ll be unable to get back in.

Makena Kelly and Esther Cohen contributed to this report.

Update March 13th, 2:08PM ET: This article has been updated with further details and comment from Facebook. It now appears that WhatsApp is also down for some users.

Update March 13th, 4:05PM ET: Some users have reported Oculus is also down and that the feature for authenticating logins through Facebook is down.
So, thoughts on this? Aside from people being unable to communicate with people in the affected areas, or vice versa. Since I'm in Texas, this has made me unable to talk with a lot of my online friends.

Anyone else having trouble?

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-13 06:25pm
by Broomstick
Yep.

I can open the app, but the functions are spotty and no messages.

Since I don't live on Facebook it's a minor irritant to me. For other people it's a Very Big Deal.

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-13 06:52pm
by Gandalf
Facebook is down? Who'll spread the racist memes!?

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-13 06:56pm
by Crazedwraith
Working for me as well as it ever does. It's developed an odd habit of only showing me one post recently. And then not recording when I've read messages.

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-13 09:48pm
by InsaneTD
Gandalf wrote: 2019-03-13 06:52pm Facebook is down? Who'll spread the racist memes!?
Reddit.

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-13 09:51pm
by Jub
InsaneTD wrote: 2019-03-13 09:48pm
Gandalf wrote: 2019-03-13 06:52pm Facebook is down? Who'll spread the racist memes!?
Reddit.
4 and 8-chan. Twitter. DeviantArt. Some parts of Tumbler and Instagram...

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-14 03:05am
by Ace Pace
I think most people here have a narrow look at how bad this outage is. Many places, particularly in non western countries, rely on FB applications for communications and business. Even in the west, FB for business is making inroads, this isn't an event whose only impact is slowly the spread of memes.

Gandalf wrote: 2019-03-13 06:52pm Facebook is down? Who'll spread the racist memes!?
My feed is entirely tankie and libertarians so for all I know, racism is gone ;)

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-14 04:45am
by K. A. Pital
Glorious.

Online is overrated.

People can try to go back to real lives from the escapist meme-consumption.

Oh, looks pretty drab like that Nebuchandezzar ship in the Matrix? Well sorry, CAPITALISM.

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-14 07:49pm
by Lord Pounder
Had to talk to my wife yesterday. She seems nice, might keep her.

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-14 08:27pm
by Imperial528
I didn't even know until my brother got home from work and mentioned it.

Re: Facebook down in areas worldwide

Posted: 2019-03-15 12:26pm
by SolarpunkFan
Imperial528 wrote: 2019-03-14 08:27pm I didn't even know until my brother got home from work and mentioned it.
I don't use it at all (deactivated my account) so I was totally unaffected. :D