Facebook down: Site stops working properly but users find fix for website and app issues
Facebook has stopped working for some of its users.
But there appears to be a fix: logging out and back into the site seems to make it work, at least for some of those affected.
Affected users also found they had been automatically logged out, but that the site worked as normal once they logged in again.
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Vast number of people were affected by the issues, according to tracking website Down Detector. But they did not appear to be hitting all users of the site.
Problems were particularly present in the north east of the US, though were being reported across the world, according to the same site.
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A humanoid robot gestures during a demo at a stall in the Indian Machine Tools Expo, IMTEX/Tooltech 2017 held in Bangalore
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Engineers test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, South Korea
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Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi
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A test line of a new energy suspension railway, resembling a giant panda, is seen in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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Google celebrates its 21st birthday on September 27. The The search engine was founded in September 1998 by two PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in their dormitories at California’s Stanford University. Page and Brin chose the name google as it recalled the mathematic term 'googol', meaning 10 raised to the power of 100
Google
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Dmitry Rogozin/Twitter
3/25 Hexa drone lifts off
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Reuters
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Microsoft announced Project Scarlett, the successor to the Xbox One, at E3 2019. The company said that the new console will be 4 times as powerful as the Xbox One and is slated for a release date of Christmas 2020
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5/25 First new iPod in four years
Apple has announced the new iPod Touch, the first new iPod in four years. The device will have the option of adding more storage, up to 256GB
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6/25 Folding phone may flop
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7/25 Charging mat non-starter
Apple has cancelled its AirPower wireless charging mat, which was slated as a way to charge numerous apple products at once
AFP/Getty
8/25 "Super league" India shoots down satellite
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EPA
9/25 5G incoming
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Getty
10/25 Uber halts driverless testing after death
Uber has halted testing of driverless vehicles after a woman was killed by one of their cars in Tempe, Arizona. March 19 2018
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11/25
A humanoid robot gestures during a demo at a stall in the Indian Machine Tools Expo, IMTEX/Tooltech 2017 held in Bangalore
Getty
12/25
A humanoid robot gestures during a demo at a stall in the Indian Machine Tools Expo, IMTEX/Tooltech 2017 held in Bangalore
Getty
13/25
Engineers test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, South Korea
Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty
14/25
Engineers test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, South Korea
Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty
15/25
The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie 'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company
Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty
16/25
Engineers test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, South Korea
Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty
17/25
Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi
Rex
18/25
Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session
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19/25
A test line of a new energy suspension railway resembling the giant panda is seen in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Reuters
20/25
A test line of a new energy suspension railway, resembling a giant panda, is seen in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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21/25
A concept car by Trumpchi from GAC Group is shown at the International Automobile Exhibition in Guangzhou, China
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22/25
A Mirai fuel cell vehicle by Toyota is displayed at the International Automobile Exhibition in Guangzhou, China
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23/25
A visitor tries a Nissan VR experience at the International Automobile Exhibition in Guangzhou, China
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24/25
A man looks at an exhibit entitled 'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London
Getty
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A new Israeli Da-Vinci unmanned aerial vehicle manufactured by Elbit Systems is displayed during the 4th International conference on Home Land Security and Cyber in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv
Getty
Facebook's official platform status page, which tracks outages for developers who use the site's tools, said that the site was working healthily. But the page is often slow to react to even major outages, and does not always reflect smaller ones at all.
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The company has had a series of problems over 2019, which saw it hit with some of its longest and most widespread outages ever.
Occasionally, those problems also hit other Facebook-owned platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp. But the latest problems do not appear to be affecting those apps.
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