Social networking giant Facebook appears to be hit by an outage of sorts with users reportedly unable to\u00a0update their status or comment on others’ updates.<\/p>\n
According to various reports, as well as numerous comments on social media site Twitter, users were greeted with the message “There was a problem updating your status. Please try again in a few minutes,” when trying to use massively popular social media site.<\/p>\n
Facebook has a\u00a0user base\u00a0of nearly 1.2 billion people. It is not clear what areas are affected.<\/p>\n
BusinessTech confirmed the error, while the Wall Street Journal also reported that, when using the iPhone app, a status message appeared to go through without error, but ultimately never published.<\/p>\n
Website, isitdownrightnow.com – which pings websites to check whether they are reachable – shows that the Facebook site as a whole is up and running, but notes widespread reports of down-time.<\/p>\n
Facebook didn\u2019t immediately respond to BusinessTech’s request for comment.<\/p>\n
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