Is Facebook Down?
Facebook is online
No issues reported. The website, app, and services are fully operational.
Service status is determined by merging official data with a 24-hour baseline of user-reported issues. Our tool recalculates these metrics every 30 minutes to provide a real-time, 360° view of connectivity.
Major Facebook Outages and Causes
Meta’s global infrastructure is incredibly vast, yet even its robust systems face periodic disruptions due to authentication failures and traffic management glitches. Below are a few notable examples:
March 3, 2026
A significant worldwide outage left thousands of users unable to access their accounts for several hours. Many were greeted with a "Your account is temporarily unavailable" message, sparking widespread confusion. While the platform's web servers remained reachable, a backend site issue prevented users from proceeding past the login screen.
Resource: BleepingComputer: Facebook Accounts Unavailable in Worldwide Outage
March 5, 2024
In a massive Meta-wide disruption, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger went dark for hundreds of thousands of users simultaneously. The outage was traced to a failure in an authentication dependency, which caused valid login attempts to be rejected globally. The issue was purely backend-related, as network paths and web servers showed no signs of external disruption.
Resource: ThousandEyes: Meta Outage Analysis - March 5, 2024
October 4, 2021
This historic six-hour blackout completely erased Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram from the global internet. The cause was a configuration error in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which effectively deleted the routing paths to Facebook’s data centers. The crisis was intensified because the outage also disabled the internal tools employees needed to fix the error.
Resource: The Guardian: Facebook and Instagram: Meta services hit by widespread outages
How our status checker works?
Our engine bridges the gap between official status updates and actual user experience, providing a 360° view of connectivity. Our tool analyzes user-reported issues over the past 24 hours to calculate the status of each service every 30 minutes.
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We synchronize with official platform status updates every 30 minutes to ensure major global outages are identified without fail.
What to Do If Facebook Is Down?
If our live status tracker indicates Facebook is "Up" but you are seeing blank pages or login loops, follow these four localized solutions.
1Bypass Regional Edge Failures with BearVPN
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Bypass Regional Edge Failures with BearVPN Localized outages or ISP-specific routing loops can make Facebook appear down in your city while it works perfectly elsewhere. Connecting to BearVPN allows you to encrypt your data and route your traffic through an optimized server in a different region, effectively jumping over regional network blocks to establish a clean handshake with Facebook's active servers.
2Reset Your Device's Handshake
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Reset Your Device's Handshake Connectivity issues are often tied to a stale or corrupted connection between your device and the ISP. Try toggling your Wi-Fi off and back on, or better yet, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data. This forces your device to request a fresh network configuration, which can often bypass local DNS errors or "page not found" glitches.
3Wipe Your Digital Cache and Cookies
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Wipe Your Digital Cache and Cookies Browsers often store temporary "error pages" in their cache, causing Facebook to appear down even after Meta has fixed the issue. Navigate to your browser settings to clear your cookies and browsing history. For mobile users, "Force Stopping" the app and clearing the cache can clear out corrupted session data that might be causing persistent login failures.
4Verify App Version and Account Status
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Verify App Version and Account StatusSometimes "outages" are actually localized app bugs or automated account restrictions. Ensure your Facebook app is updated to the latest version via the App Store or Google Play Store. If you can open Facebook on one device but not another, the problem is local to your hardware rather than a platform-wide outage.
Frequently asked questions
Check our live status indicator at the top of this page; if it shows "Online," the service is functional for most users. A sudden spike in the "User Report Map" confirms a verified global or regional server emergency.
This message typically surfaces during site-wide technical issues where the backend can't fetch your account data. If our checker shows a green light, try using BearVPN to refresh your connection via a different geographic node to see if your feed loads.
Yes. Many school or workplace networks block social media to limit distractions. BearVPN's military-grade encryption hides your activity from local filters, allowing you to bypass these firewalls and use Facebook privately.
Most minor technical "wobbles" are resolved by Meta’s engineering teams within 15 to 90 minutes. Major infrastructure failures, such as BGP routing errors, can take several hours to fully stabilize across all global regions.
Yes. This error often occurs when your current IP address is being flagged by traffic management systems during a server surge. Switching to a BearVPN server provides a fresh IP, potentially allowing you to bypass the restriction and log in successfully.
