Facebook users across Europe have been logged out of their accounts and forbidden from getting back on to the social network. It wasn’t long before panic gripped netizens from Hungary to the UK.
In the last hour, popular monitoring website DownDetector has witnessed a spike in outage reports from frustrated Facebook users.
People attempting to use the site were greeted with the message: “An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again.”
Users looking for answers quickly turned to Twitter, where the #facebookdown hashtag rapidly started trending. RT has contacted the social media giant for comment but it has yet to receive a response.
Facebook just auto-logged out a LOT of people from https://t.co/7d1bg8aJML…
That’s never a good sign.
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) December 5, 2018
Congrats #Facebook, you’ve just panicked a shit-tonne of people into thinking they’ve been hacked! #FacebookDown
— Kirsten Heath (@KTH1309) December 5, 2018
Can’t log-in after force log out on #facebook, can’t reset password eilher as password reset email didn’t arrive, using google to confirm account is broken too. Is facebook down? #FacebookDownpic.twitter.com/7czAWpUN2b
— Juozas Pocius (@juozas) December 5, 2018
No! Not now! I have work to do and only 1 hour to do it in! #Facebook#facebookdownpic.twitter.com/re1oHjRJtF
— Katy Henson (@socialchestnut) December 5, 2018
However, some users reported a brief interruption of service before being allowed to log back on and scroll through cat videos once again.
“Now I received my recovery code, but when I entered it got the following message:
