Facebook is experiencing a global outage. Users are seeing a flood of posts from strangers posting to celebrities pages.

  • A strange Facebook bug is affecting users’ feeds starting Wednesday morning
  • The glitch is flooding feeds with random people posting on pages of celebrities
  • Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has yet to comment about the strange issue 

Users on Facebook are complaining about the flood of posts by celebrities posting to their pages.

Website Downdetector reports that the social network is experiencing issues since 7:08 AM BST. This website monitors site outages.

Downdetector shows that over 2,000 individuals have reported issues, with 77% of them claiming it is their feeds. 

Facebook users flooded to Twitter to share their experiences with the bizarre glitch, which the site's owner, Meta, is yet to comment on

Twitter users took to Facebook to tell their tales about this bizarre glitch. Meta the site owner has not yet commented on it.

Facebook has been having problems since 7:08 AM BST, according to website Downdetector, which monitors website outages.

According to Downdetector website, Facebook is experiencing problems starting at 7:08 AM BST. Downdetector monitors outages on websites.

Over 2,000 people have reported problems, with 77 per cent of those claiming this issue is with their feeds. Users appear to be affecting across the UK

More than 2,000 users have complained, and 77% of them claim that the problem is related to their feeds. It appears that users are having issues across the UK

Twitter users were quick to take to Twitter to tell their tales about this bizarre glitch. Meta, the site owner is still to address it.

User @maymaywala tweeted: “@facebook down or what ?????” My Twitter feed is flooded with comments from random users on celebrity pages.

@Zeeshan0961 said that another user had commented on the matter: “What’s this @facebook?” My entire timeline is filled with Celebrities wall posts. 

One user, @Zeeshan0961, said: 'What the hell is this @facebook? My whole timeline is Full with people posting On Celebrities walls'

@Zeeshan0961 commented: “What is the heck with this @facebook?” My timeline is full of people who post on Celebrities walls.

One user said on Twitter that the issue is 'exposing me to parts of humanity I wish I hadn't seen'

Twitter user One said the issue was “exposing me to parts I don’t know about humanity”

'Mark Zuckerberg right now': Facebook's parent company Meta is yet to comment on the bizarre issue

‘Mark Zuckerberg right now’: Facebook’s parent company Meta is yet to comment on the bizarre issue

'Facebook glitch!! What's happening': Users are quick to jump to Twitter whenever there's an outage

‘Facebook glitch!! What is happening? Users jump straight to Twitter when there is an outage

@CallMeElektra took a screenshot from her Facebook page and showed a random user posting to the page.

Another person posted shots of random posts to the pages of musicians Eminem and Billie Eilish, claiming it had affected his ‘entire feed’. 

It seems to be a global issue – one user based in Melbourne, Australia, had seen a post of someone posting to the page of American actor Vin Diesel.

Another user affected shared his experience in New Delhi, India. He said Facebook was “acting drunk and funny”. 

A user in Melbourne, Australia, had seen a post of someone posting to the page of American actor Vin Diesel

Melbourne’s user, Australia had seen Vin Diesel posting to his page.

One Twitter user, @CallMeElektra, took a screenshot of her Facebook feed, showing a random person posting on the page of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

@CallMeElektra took a screenshot from her Facebook page and showed a random user posting to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ page. 

'Acting drunk and funny': Another affected user shared their experiences from New Delhi in India

One user experienced “acting drunk and funny”, another shared their experience from New Delhi, India.

Another posted shots of random posts to the pages of American musicians Eminem and Billie Eilish

Another shared photos of random postings to the pages Eminem and Billie Eilish.

This glitch does not appear to affect all Facebook users. MailOnline reached out to Meta for comments.

This could be due to Facebook’s long-term global changes. 

Meta is splitting the Facebook homepage into two separate tabs – ‘Feeds’, which is focused on chronological posts, and ‘Home’, which focuses on promoted posts.

FACEBOOK APP SPLITTING IT NEWS FEED INTO TWO DISTINCT TABS HOME AND FEEDS 

Facebook has bowed to pressure from users and is bringing back the chronological feed so users can see updates from friends in the order they were published. 

A new tab, called “Feeds”, has been added to the social network’s desktop app and iOS and Android apps. It displays recent posts by friends, groups, and Pages. 

It’s also renamed the Facebook app’s primary tab – the first thing users see when they open the app – ‘Home’.   

The Home tab will continue to order posts by ‘relevance’, based on its algorithm, along with personalised recommendations of who to follow. 

Feeds will be reminiscent of how Facebook was a decade ago. 

Facebook used to have a chronological news feed, but from 2011 this was phased out and replaced with algorithmically-driven content and most popular posts from friends nearer the top. 

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