Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage

Social media giant Facebook suffered a worldwide outage that prevented users from accessing their accounts.

When visiting the site, users were greeted with a message stating there account is temporarily unavailable.

“Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes,” reads the outage message.

According to DownDetector, the outage began around 4:15 PM ET and is impacting accounts worldwide.

However, the Meta status page only claims there are “High Disruptions” to the Facebook ad manager, Instagram Boost, and the WhatsApp Business API.

GeekFeed contacted Facebook with questions about the outage and will update the story if we hear back.

Update 6:21 PM ET: The Facebook outage has now been resolved, with users once again able to access their accounts.

However, Facebook has yet to provide any information as to what caused the outage.