{"id":810470,"date":"2026-07-19T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810470\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:10:09","slug":"facebook-suffers-major-global-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810470\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook suffers \u2018major global outage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook users are able to access their accounts once aagin after an earlier outage blocked them.<\/p>\n

The issue was first raised at 5.30pm Sunday, July 19, with thousands of users across the world complaining about being unable to log into their accounts.<\/p>\n

The network\u2019s phone application is working as usual, according to Perth Now.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the outlet, the issue has affected users across the world.<\/p>\n

Down Detector registered more than 3000 complaints as of 4pm Sunday, with countless others posting their grievances elsewhere across the internet. That number, as of 8.40pm, dropped to 61.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the night, users were faced with the message: \u201cAccount 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

At its peark, 62per cent of reported issues were related to the website, 21per cent involved mobile devices, and 11per cent involved the app.<\/p>\n

Meta had not issued an official explanation for the outage as of the time of reporting.<\/p>\n

Outages which affected Instagram and Messenger also appears to be over.<\/p>\n

According to downdetector<\/a>, at 6.30pm, there were almost 2,000 reports of Instagram being down. As of late Sunday evening, there are now only 158 reports.<\/p>\n

Earlier, some 37per cent of issues were related to the app, while another 33per cent were related to \u201cfeed\/timeline\u201d and another 25 per cent to posting and publishing.<\/p>\n

There were 200 complaints about Facebook Messenger being inaccessible at around the same time, according to downdetector<\/a>. That has now dropped to 12.<\/p>\n

Some 21 per cent of reported issues related to the app, while another 29 per cent were related to the webiste. Another 29 per cent logged issues with voice calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook users are able to access their accounts once aagin after an earlier outage blocked them. The issue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[385614,385605,385627,385609,385638,385618,385633,385622,385620,385615,385647,385621,385637,385648,385623,41820,385626,385636,385631,385643,385617,385642,385630,32092,385607,137740,2456,136193,385645,43,1202,385612,8176,385625,385632,385629,385644,182210,385646,44,385639,46,385640,385606,385611,385604,8825,385624,385616,385641,35935,378343,382131,377486,385628,384165,376539,385635,385649,54798,385634,385610,385650,385613,25230,41,39,42,40,92241,385619,385608],"class_list":["post-810470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-s-phone-application","tag-feed-timeline","tag-000-reports","tag-11per-cent","tag-12-some-21","tag-200-complaints","tag-21per-cent","tag-4pm","tag-5-30pm","tag-6-30pm","tag-61-earlier","tag-62per-cent","tag-8-40pm","tag-a-few-minutes","tag-a-site-issue","tag-account","tag-almost-2","tag-an-earlier-outage","tag-an-official-explanation","tag-another-25","tag-another-29","tag-another-33per-cent","tag-around-the-same-time","tag-cent","tag-countless-others","tag-downdetector","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-facebook-users","tag-headlines","tag-instagram","tag-instagram-and-messenger","tag-issues","tag-its-peark","tag-july-19","tag-late-sunday-evening","tag-major-global-outage","tag-mobile-devices","tag-more-than-3000-complaints","tag-news","tag-only-158-reports-earlier","tag-perth","tag-posting-and-publishing-there","tag-reported-issues","tag-reporting-outages","tag-some-37per-cent","tag-sunday","tag-that-number","tag-the-app","tag-the-app-meta","tag-the-internet","tag-the-issue","tag-the-message","tag-the-night","tag-the-outage","tag-the-outlet","tag-the-time","tag-the-webiste","tag-the-website","tag-the-world","tag-the-world-down-detector","tag-their-accounts","tag-their-accounts-the-network","tag-their-grievances","tag-thousands","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-users","tag-voice-calls","tag-your-account"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}