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Problems were clustered around logins and using the Facebook website, users claimed
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Thousands of users claimed Tuesday they were having issues accessing Facebook.
As of 2:30 p.m. Pacific time, there had been more than 11,000 problem reports about the social network, according to the unofficial monitoring site Downdetector.
More than 60 percent of complaints related to the Facebook website, while 16 percent registered issues with logging in.
Commenters on Downdetector reported seeing the problems while using Facebook in geographies ranging from Marion County, Florida, to Bangladesh and Greece.
The Independent has contacted Facebook parent company Meta for comment and official confirmation.
Users worldwide claimed on Tuesday they were having issues accessing Facebook’s full functionality (Getty Images)“I've seen a lot over the years, but I don't think I've seen Facebook go down on the user side like this in many, many years,” writer Brandon Wenerd wrote on X, sharing a screenshot of Facebook with a warning message that read, “Account Temporarily Unavailable.”
“Facebook is down on desktop,” added X user @PadPoet. “Mobile seems to work.”
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