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Facebook experienced ‘brief outage’ AGAIN, frustrated users claim

FACEBOOK appears to have experienced a brief outage for some users.

Problems were said to start in the UK around 9am but it’s currently unclear if there was a problem with the website or the devices that people were using to access it.

User reports indicate Facebook is having problems since 9:24 AM BST. https://t.co/ABn03EKomu RT if you’re also having problems #Facebookdown

— DowndetectorUK (@DowndetectorUK) October 28, 2021

Downdetector tweeted from its UK account: “User reports indicate Facebook is having problems since 9:24 AM BST.”

It says that most of the problems reported are to do with the website.

So far, hundreds of people have reported issues but they seem to be tailing off.

A few have taken to other forms of social media to express concern.

A London based photographer tweeted: “Is Facebook down?”


To which another user simply replied: “Yes”.

However, a few people experiencing problems doesn’t necessarily mean the problem lies with Facebook or its servers.

There could be issues with the devices that people are trying to login to Facebook on or their internet connection.

We have reached out to Facebook for comment.

The tech giant has experienced a few outages recently.

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