Facebook and Instagram Not Working - March 13, 2019

Once again the internet is thrown in to chaos as users find themselves logged out or unable to comment.

No word yet from Facebook on when the issue will be resolved, but users from around the world are experiencing the problem.

Even though the message reads that it was a maintenance issue, it's hard to believe that Facebook would schedule a maintenance world-wide at such an odd time of day and week, leading many to wonder if it was a hack of some kind.

The blackout is affecting even third party publishing tools such as Buffer, causing scheduled posts to not be published.

Embedded Facebook widgets on websites are also being affected, basically leaving large open spots on any web pages that have them.

Facebook Not Working on October 11, 2017 (10/11/17)

Once again the world is standing still as we wait to see what has happened to Facebook. Thousands of users are reporting that nothing happens when they visit the site, both on their computers or on their smart devices.

I tried to use my iphone to post into a group but had no luck.

Many of the outage maps are also reporting that Facebook is down.

There has been no comment so far from Facebook on what is causing this widespread outage but for this Facebook Marketer, I think it means a vacation day.

Insufficient Permission Error on Facebook Pages 10/5/15

Facebook seems to be experiencing a strange glitch this morning. Probably not so annoying for someone with just one page they check in on every now and then, but for a social media manager like myself, it's quite annoying because this message pops up every time I go to one of my pages.

Insufficient Permission- You do not have the necessary permission for the specified Page to perform the requested action.

So what action am I trying to perform when this message pops up? Basically, just scrolling down the page (which causes Facebook to have to retrieve older posts) will make this message pop up.

A quick google search of this reveals that this is a standard FB message that occurs when you try to do something that is "not allowed" on Facebook such as using your FB page to post to a Group wall for example.

Nothing yet on the Facebook Help Desk with known issues, so I guess I'll wait to see if anyone else experiences this today. Comment below if you do.

Facebook not working on September 17, 2015

It's hard to believe it's almost been a whole year since the great Facebook crash of 2014 but yet again, it appears that something on Facebook is majorly broken.

No one seems to be tweeting about it yet on Twitter and for me it seems to be on again, off again. We'll keep you updated.

June 11, 2014 - Facebook Pages Error - Images won't upload to your Facebook Page

The internet has gone wild this morning because Facebook Pages stopped working. It appears that people are unable to upload photos at this time. Watch the video below for an example:

Meanwhile, software publishing tool GroSocial yesterday reported that their Facebook API (the software used to access Facebook Pages) was not working properly, causing the software to be unable to post anything at all to pages.

Facebook has declined to give an update as of this posting, but it is clear that the problem has escalated from their change in API to the platform itself.

It is still unclear how many people have been affected by this or how long this will last.

10/21/13 - The Day that Facebook BROKE DOWN - Trouble with Groups, Commenting, and Posting on Facebook.

Today will go down in the history books as the day that Facebook broke down. The problems seemed to be coming from the computer at first, but the more we dig, the more we are discovering that this is a wide-spread Facebook issue.

The problems as we see it:

Facebook Groups - users are unable to upload any media nor can they post messages. Admins are unable to add or remove group members nor can they pin or unpin posts from the top of the group.

Commenting - users are unable to post comments to their friends posts. The error looks something like this: 

"Likes" not working - error messages also occur when you are trying to like another person's comment.

Posting - users are getting error messages when trying to post status updates. This blog reports that several people are experiencing this message when trying to post an update, but this problem seems to be more sporadic.

How wide-spread is it?

We have several friends all over the country and the world as a matter of fact and all of them are reporting some kind of trouble, although not all of their troubles are the same. This site also indicates that users from all over the world are experiencing issues as well.

What is Facebook doing about it?

So far Facebook has not published anything online about this event. We're curious to see what the issue really is because it isn't just in the United States. Users in Hong Kong are even experiencing these issues.

We tried to file an error report on Facebook's support site and received this error message:

Updates will continue as we learn more.

Update#2:  At 9:44am CST, I attempted to comment on a friend's post that she made on my timeline. It seems the issues will continue to be sporadic.

Update: Looks like most major news outlets have picked up on the outage. They are reporting that things are getting back to normal although posting will be sporadic. Comment below and let us know how things are going for you.

Also, you might want to tune into Facebook's News Room for any updates straight from Facebook (although it seems that they have their hands full and can't get to an announcement just yet).