Thousands of users claimed Tuesday they were having issues accessing Facebook.
Around 5:30 p.m. ET, 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.
Those commenting on Downdetector reported experiencing 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.
“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.”
By Tuesday evening, problem reports on Downdetector had fallen back to nearly baseline levels.
Last month, users of Instagram, another Meta company, reported suffering a brief outage.
