Posted on 03/13/2019 12:25:09 PM PDT by Brown Deer
If you can't post a new status on Facebook, it's not you.
Facebook and Facebook-owned photo app Instagram are down for some users on Wednesday. The social networks have been having issues since around 9 a.m. PT, according to tracking site Down Detecter. Some users have posted on Twitter that they're seeing a message saying Facebook is "down for maintenance."
Other users trying to post status updates on Facebook, including CNET staff, got error messages saying "something went wrong."
Facebook confirmed the outages.
"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps," a Facebook spokesperson said in an email. "We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
Facebook hasn't revealed what caused the outage, but said in a tweet on Wednesday that it wasn't because of a cyber attack known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
This isn't Facebook's first outage. In November the social network went down in a mishap caused by a test the company was running. That outage lasted about 40 minutes. That same month, Facebook and Instagram were down for hours because of a "server configuration." The outage was also affecting Facebook's ad products.
How dare you Sir?!
Don’t be bothered by his head resembling a male appendage. Anything else would be false advertising.
LOL!
Very creative post!
Post of the day?
Takem both down!
More than that I can’t post there now.
IG is still down for me.
The world map shows scattered areas are down.
Great way to see what friends are doing - with photos. Especially those thousands of miles away.
She’s mourning the loss of the old growth forests..../snicker!
I don’t post politics on my Facebook page, but I do comment on the news feeds. It’s a chance to influence people.
LIARS.
FakebookGoogle is denying mass DDOS attack.
LIARS.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IDIOT ! What else can I call you.
Just heard explanation, detailed, why that could not be.
SHEESH
No loss, I prefer rotary dial anyway.
I don’t know what a “DDOS attack” is, but if it shutsem down, I’m in favor of 24/7 “DDOS attacks” againstem!
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