It started around 9:30 PM, according to downdetector.com, a website and application monitoring service.
Saturday at 1 am it turned out that the problem had been solved.
“We are investigating reports that some people currently need to log in again to access their Facebook accounts,” the company said in a statement. “We think this was due to a configuration change and we are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible.”
The massive unsubscribe was quickly followed up with user memes, as well as a few conspiracy theories.
In a deluge of irony (or genius, depending on your perspective), Facebook posted a follow-up message about the outage on Twitter.
So Facebook heard it was a “configuration change”.
👏👏👏 to the engineers who solved the problem and patiently tried to explain the cause to us in vain. https://t.co/AUARhCZ7W2
– Facebook app (@facebookapp) January 23, 2021
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