- Facebook went down on Sunday, July 19, leaving millions of users locked out of their accounts with an error message
- Instagram also went down shortly after, raising concerns about a wider issue affecting Meta’s platforms
- Users across both platforms have been unable to view or share posts as the outage continues
Legit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering world news.
California, United States – Facebook suffered a widespread outage on Sunday, July 19, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts on both the desktop and mobile versions of the platform.
Legit.ng reports that anyone attempting to log in to Facebook was met with the same error message: “Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes.”
Source: Twitter
The disruption, which was ongoing at the time of writing, initially appeared to be limited to Facebook. However, Instagram also went down shortly afterwards, pointing to a broader problem within Meta’s infrastructure rather than an isolated fault on one platform.
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What Users Are Experiencing
Across both social media platforms, users have found themselves unable to view their feeds or share any content. The simultaneous failure of both services has compounded frustration for millions of people who rely on the platforms for personal communication, business activity, and news consumption.
The nature of the error message suggests Meta is aware of the problem and attributes it to an internal site issue rather than user-side faults such as incorrect passwords or account violations.
Source: Legit.ng