Huge Fb glitch leads to Feeds being flooded with posts on superstar fan pages

Should you tried to entry your Fb account yesterday or so, then you definately have been in for a shock (and never the great type). As an alternative of seeing posts from your pals and updates from Teams and different people you comply with, your Feed was flooded with random posts, particularly those who have been initially posted on the pages of celebrities.

You aren’t alone in your bewilderment as a number of customers internationally confronted the identical problem. The reason being easy – Meta’s flagship social media platform suffered a large glitch on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the problem has been resolved since then, and Fb is up and working like ordinary.

The character of the glitch was unusual – it didn’t stop customers from accessing Fb or present errors (akin to 404 – Web page Not Discovered). As an alternative, it flooded the Feeds of the affected customers with content material and posts despatched to celebrities akin to Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise, Deepika Padukone, Eminem, and Shakira on their fan pages and teams.

“Fb has want hit by a significant spam assault. A number of Fb Pages of celebrities have had spammy memes posted to them within the final 24 hours,” knowledgeable Matt Navarro, a widely known social media professional, in a tweet.

Downdetector, which is the place to go to and hold observe of issues when such glitches and outages happen, knowledgeable that over 300 customers posted complaints about seeing random posts on their feeds. These complaints saved on growing from 11:03 AM and reached its peak at 1:03 PM with 339 complaints. Since then, the variety of complaints subsided, and as of 8:03 PM, there are solely 4 stories of complaints of Fb outages.

These huge outage on Fb occurred on each its desktop and cellular variations – in accordance with Downdetector, 59% of customers reported complaints concerning their Fb apps. 26% of complaints have been concerning Feeds, and the remaining 14% have been complaints about Fb’s web site.

Aside from reporting complaints, the affected customers expressed their displeasure in the one means they know the way – posting on Twitter and spreading memes.

“We’re conscious that some individuals are having bother with their Fb Feed. We’re working to get issues again to regular as rapidly as potential and we apologise for any inconvenience,” stated a spokesperson for Meta.

Later, they added {that a} “configuration change” was liable for individuals working into bother with their Feed.