Probably the most useful tool is Down Detector, a tool that tracks user reports about problems with other websites. If your Facebook isn’t working in the future, there are plenty of easy ways to check what’s going on. Alternatively, here’s all you need to know to check whether the social media site is experiencing problems, or whether the issue is on your end, in the future. Is your Facebook down? Or is Facebook Messenger not working for you? Tweet your experiences to us Reviews. If your Messenger still isn’t working, our best advice now is to be patient – it looks like the worst is over and you should be back online shortly. Others, however, may be working just fine.Īs of 1:30pm GMT, normal service appeared to have been largely resumed, with the number of problems reported to Down Detector plummeting, from the 1000+ complaints lodged this morning, to a more modest 30-odd. One possible explanation, therefore, is that a new Messenger build is being rolled out and causing issues for certain devices and platforms. Investigating the matter, members of the Trusted Reviews team confirmed they were experiencing problems with Messenger – though some also appear to be unaffected. Image Credit: OpenStreet Map ( via Down Detector) Popular borkage monitoring tool Down Detector also appears to confirm that Facebook Messenger is experiencing problems – and that the issue is very much a global one. Subsequently, people began to look for reasons behind the apparent outage, with one school of thought holding that it could be due to an ongoing Messenger update. Predictably, some of the first reports began to surface on Twitter:įacebook is DOWN, Messenger is DOWN #facebookdown #messengerdown Tell twitter because facebook won't work! News that Facebook Messenger – and possibly Facebook as a whole – was down took the internet world by storm today. Here’s all the latest news and updates, plus information on how to check if Facebook isn’t working. Facebook Messenger went down on Tuesday December 5.

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