Facebook don crash! Di whole social media platform don fall down for early Friday morning, and users dey find demselves logged out without any warning. Instead of dem normal feed, dem see error message wey say: ‘An unexpected error occurred’. Di main Facebook website too show di same wahala, telling visitors say ‘something went wrong’ and dat di company dey ‘working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can’.
Di outage no just affect Facebook alone. Messenger, wey be di chat app, also don suffer. But other Meta services like Instagram and WhatsApp dey stay online, although some products like Instagram website also get issues. Di problem spread across di world, from UK to many oda countries. Users for different places report say dem no fit access any of Facebook products.
Meta, di company wey own Facebook, no get official status page for consumer products. Dem get one for business tools, but at di time of dis report, dat page no show any update about di outage. Downdetector, wey be popular website for tracking outages, also appear to don break around di same time. E no clear if di two events connect. For Facebook and Instagram, Downdetector dey display ‘404 Page Not Found’ error instead of data.
Some online outage detectors, like NordVPN and IsDown, report di connection issues. Facebook acknowledge di problem on dia advertising status page, where dem write: ‘We are recovering from an earlier outage that caused some advertisers to have trouble accessing or viewing ads reporting, and services are in the process of being restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.’
Di outage start early Friday morning, and many users dey complain for social media, though dem no fit use Facebook to complain. Di company don promise say dem dey work on di fix, but no time frame give for when services go come back fully. Dis na developing story, and we go update as we get more info.
