Facebook users are today reporting numerous issues with the social media platform, with some receiving comments to celebrity accounts.
DownDetector is reporting a higher level of reported outages on Facebook, including a spike in issues from South African users.
A Meta spokesperson comments: “Earlier today, a configuration change caused some people to have trouble with their Facebook Feed. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologise for any inconvenience.”
For South African users, most users (85%) complained about problems on their feed, with some also encountering glitches on the app (13%) and 3% with issues on the web site.
Internationally, users reported roughly equal incidents around their feeds and the app (45% and 43% respectively), with a small minority also complaining about the web site.
Mostly, users were seeing notifications of comments posted to celebrities’ accounts.