As of Monday morning, Facebook is experiencing errors across the site. It won't allow many users to update your status, post comments, send messages or post photos. Users are also unable to Like posts.
Trying to update your status will yield this message: "There was a problem updating your status. Please try again in a few minutes."
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Facebook status update issues are not uncommon, but this one seems global -- we've tested it from several IPs and received the same message.
According to web service status tracker Downrightnow, Facebook is likely experiencing a service disruption.
Earlier this morning, while performing some network maintenance, we experienced an issue that prevented some users from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused."
UPDATE, Oct. 21, 10:10 a.m. ET: Some users are reporting the ability to update statuses and Like posts again.
Oct. 21, 11:43 a.m. ET: Facebook responded that the outages were due to network maintenance: "Earlier this morning, while performing some network maintenance, we experienced an issue that prevented some users from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused."
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