Facebook is down for users across the globe as hundreds of people report outages in both United Kingdom and America. Users have reported receiving “Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes”. According to Downdetector, 82% users reported problem with the website.
As of 2:30 p.m. Pacific time, there had been more than 11,000 problem reports about the social network, according to the unofficial monitoring site Downdetector.
More than 60 percent of complaints related to the Facebook website, while 16 percent registered issues with logging in.
Commenters on Downdetector reported seeing the problems while using Facebook in geographies ranging from Marion County, Florida, to Bangladesh and Greece.
“I’ve seen a lot over the years, but I don’t think I’ve seen Facebook go down on the user side like this in many, many years,” writer Brandon Wenerd wrote on X, sharing a screenshot of Facebook with a warning message that read, “Account Temporarily Unavailable.”
“Facebook is down on desktop,” added X user @PadPoet. “Mobile seems to work.”
Further user have also flocked to social media reporting problems with Instagram and TikTok.
Instagram is reportedly down for hundreds of users on March 3, 2026. The surge appears to have started around 4:29PM Eastern Time, according to DownDetector, which shows a noticeable rise in outage reports.
