Facebook “Account Unavailable due to site maintenance”
415For a site that currently has an Alexa traffic ranking of 5, this is pretty dumb. It’s almost as bad as the sporadic errors on myspace. Site maintenance? Really? At 10:45am on a Tuesday? Come’on.. give me a break. Facebook is one of the busiest sites on the net and you disable my account for “a few hours” in the middle of the day? I’d expect they would be able to release code with a “flip of the switch”. If not, I’d expect downtime to be scheduled and during times of minimal traffic.
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Yep, happens to me all the time. I just “goggled” the error to see if it was common or if they were auditing my account.
It’s such bull, the site let’s me log in initially, then following a few clicks, kicks me back out with the above error message in effect.
I think it’s deliberate, a random number of accounts get closed off to save their sever memory, but allows you to log in briefly so that they don’t loose their Hit rate (Advertisers wouldn’t like that much).
yeah!!
Craig
OMG i have literally only had my fb for 2 days and it is kicking me off it sucks and by the way, how do you erase your cookies?
first time for me. I am trying to get to level 94 on farmville and facebook is giving me the blues. maybe its because I never purchased anything from facebook
OMFG IT SAID IT WOULD BE CLOSED FOR A FEW HOURS AT 1 IN THE AFTER NOON IT IS NOW 6 WTF
How long was your page down?
yeeah it said hte same thing to me and it has been 2 days now its STUPID. like my moms and boyfriends work but seriously why mine?
NOT A HAPPY CAMPER…MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN “UNAVAILABLE” DUE TO MAINTENANCE ISSUES FOR HALF THE DAY NOW!!!
hahaha mine is been down for 2 days i freakin hate the server im on they should move my account to a server thats clean lol
wtf is this
fix this now
these mother fuckers want to mess with me.
i ain’t no nigga you can play with. now i am stuck at home doing nothing but making some lame ass video. i say facebook can fucking suck my dick.. even though i’m a girl, ha. this just completely pisses me off. ugh, fml. fml. fml. fml. -_________________- now all my ghetto ass friends be hitting up my profile and no shit be going down. wtf is dis. don’t nobody want chu, don’t nobody need chu. get it? i am gonna fucking shoot down this whole neighborhood and you will all regret making my facebook not work no more you dumb ass cunts.
lol
If they were charging us for facebook, we would have the right to complain but they don’t.
SUCK IT UP!
who are you even talking to? no one’s posted here in a year…
anywho, the article up top says it all. schedule maintenance for the nighttime… and maybe don’t keep people’s accounts shut off for days at a time.
Did u ever figure out how to fix this?
this is the first time it ever happend and now i am realyy mad
This is the 1st time this has happen been off for about 6hrs
I keep getting the “site maintenance” on my fb..it’s been since yesterday afternoon! how do i get back on???
omg,.. MINE HAS BEEN OFF LIKE FOR EVER!!!!! is it bec ause i over update my status????
It means that your account is on that particular server that is having maintenance. No worries. It just happened to me now and if you click help and search the topic, it tells you what is up.
HELP! It’s making me crazy….it won’t let me do anything. How do you fix this??? Anyone know?
What the hell was going on?! FACEBOOK MAINTENANCE?! duhh?! Facebook said that facebook will be back in a few hours but look, I’m waiting 1:00 p.m ’til 12 a.m but Facebook maintenance was not done yet. How long will it take? Make sure that it will be back in a few hours dude. I’m totally pissed off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
yeah. I already opened my Facebook Account but I can’t update my status, I’m not allowed to like or comment any post. What the hell was going on?! Fix it now Please!!!
I’m glad that others have seen this, as I was fearing my account had been hacked. I just spent some time in the permissions a few nights ago, really locking down my account. My pessimistic side thinks that this has to do with the changes that I made.
were you ever able to get back on it?
Omg Ikr I cant get on my yoville account now because of it and its pissing me off sorry for my french but not in a good mood :L
Yeah, it’s pretty much straight balogne. It’s happening right now to me at 3:30 on a weekend…I mean seriously, this should be happening in the early a.m…It’s free so what can I say?
haha I’ll just try later.
The site is anything but free. We are customers purchased through advertising. Facebook is getting paid, and this shouldn’t happen.
I have this. I’m a light user of the site and also have my privacy settings restricted.
I created a new account to see if I could “find” myself – no joy. I didn’t exist. I went to see if I was in a friend’s list – no joy.
Very suspcious.
YAAA mine did that tooooo!!!
im scared!! did it work after a couple of ours????
mine hasnt been working since like at the lates 5 and it is almost 9!!!!
im sooo scared what do i doo????
ok….I am having this problem now. How long did you have to wait before it reconnected? I have been waiting since 12:00 noon it is now 3:11….wtf….this is a bunch of bull crap. My kids pages are still running…..I don’t understand this. I thought maybe my page had been hacked or something.
i think its disabled my account:S
if you think your account is disabeld then you should check your e-mail the wil send you a message telling you how to take it back
I checked my e-mail and nothing in there tells me about why my account is down. Am I going to lose all my pictures? Why does this happen to only certain people?
I have been getting this same message about once a day for the last week. Sometimes it resolves almost immediately and other days, like today, it’s taking several hours. Grr.
yup,this is happening to me too…the weird thing is that my friend can log into her account but i cant log into mine,so i guess they’re not all closed.
I get this annoying message ALL THE TIME lately. I have been using it a lot, or at least remaining logged on much of the time, running it in the background of other tasks. The last week or so I run into this MORE than once a day. I use two email accounts which are both linked to my facebook and sometimes one logs me in while the other doesn’t, sometimes both are disabled. Are they targeting certain users or use-patterns? I HATE THIS and I wish they would address it to let us know why it’s happening and whether we can do anything about it.
I’ve also been getting tons of random ERROR pages that say something to the effect of Error- We are working to fix this.. in the middle of a blank page. Anyone get these?
I feel like I’m being targeted too. Several times a day for the past two weeks my account has been unavailable due to “site maintenance”. I’ll admit that I log into FB several times a day, and I wonder if FB is penalizing me because I use the site too much. I’m starting to get a little paranoid.
My facebook has been down since saturday night…getting annoyed about it now, i have tried reseting the cookies with no luck and i have emailed them 4 times with no reply
did it ever work??
yep i am having all these problems,it sucks and is a dam inconvienience. i live in bulgaria and this is how my children keep in contact with me,very unfair to say try again in a few minutes,this has been going on for at least 4 hours to my knowledge. needs sorting asap !!
Sam I’m having the exact same problems. I also have my privacy settings on high and it seems like since I did that my FB has been acting up. It’s been going on a couple weeks for me where I can login like once out of 10 attempts, and then it’ll randomly kick me out and ask me to log back in.
None of my friends are having this problem. I feel like I’m being picked on by FB.
Happened to me about 6 hours ago, still unavailable. This sucks, I have some ads running on Facebook and if I cant access my ad manager, who knows I may loose a lot of money.
I thought I was alone here. I keep getting this error message and usually I can’t log in for hours. When I do get in, most of the links don’t work. None of my friends are having this problem though and they get right in. Why would this only be happening to some of us!?
this is happening to me.. only my account has been unavailible for like 2 days now an no 1 can view my profile..
i wanna sue facebook. trhere things on there i need!!
any1 no how to fix it?
My has been down for that reason for at least 8 hours and counting. That is really stupid!
happens to me few hours ago.
i can’t log in, my friends can’t see me.
but strangely i still receive notifications on my email.
am i banned forever or not?
i dont think that it happend with me just now
ya, I too face the same problem from yesterday. All my friends can log in to their accounts but not me ! It keeps on saying Site maintenance. My profile cannot be seen by my friends either. But still i do receive notifications in my email. Pls fix this soon, it’s irritating me alot.
this happens to those who are using more then one account, or are doing something wrong…
Doing something wrong as in what??
And if you haven’t done anything wrong? Facebook was working for me fine this morning then when I got home I haven’t been able to get it. I STILL can’t get in!
Same here, still getting email notifications but unable to log on. Whats most annoying after 6 hours of trying to get online I eventually did, my account was working fine I accidentally backpaged and lost my connection .. I was then back to temp unavailable Grrrrr!!!!!!
I thin I have the solution! Well at least it worked for me.
Erase all your history and cookies from your computer under your internet options. Also erase your cache history( it think this is only on a mac not sure) the history and cookies should be enough. If you have cable internet or wireless, unplug the modem and router for about a min. This will refresh the internet connection. Then plug it back in,wait for a few min until the internet works again, and try signing in. This should work.
Good luck!
heyy thank you soo dang much!!!~~~
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i was freakin out so i did what you did and IT WORKED!!!
thank you LOL
haha wow it works..this is the best solution to this problemm..
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and all i did was 1)cleared browsing history..2) deleted cookies..
and that did the trick
thnx (:
wow!!! thanks unplugging the modem and wireless worked
SAME HERE
f*** my life
i live on fbook and it hasnt been upp for like 3 hours
WHY
WHY
I got locked out just now too!!!! Grrrrr! Like poop said FML!
This worked for me. Clear your cache, cookies and browsing history. Then restart your modem and computer. Take a nap for 2-3 hours and/or go outside and start jogging. Facebook should be back up now, but if you find you have fewer friends than before please contact your ISP.
This is SOOOOOO ridiculous! I am addicted to the game, Chain RXN, and I am in a tournament with some of my friends. They can access their pages and I cannot. I am not some gaming nerd, but I do love to play this game. Lot’s of strategy.
Anyhoo, I am mad at FB right now!!!!!!!!
uh guys , its been since wendsday since i got on my facebook account it still says site maintainence. >:(
Er no it’s not just happening to those with multiple accounts dummy! It seems to be an error affecting a lot of people who have only one account including myself and Facebook as usual just sit on their backside and do do very little to fix it.
Cody did u get ur account back? im having the same problem right now, damn Fuck facebook
I get this message every now and then too. Right now it’s been 3 hours, and still no account. I only have 1 account and 1 email linked to it, so it can’t be a multiple account problem.
It also happens every now and then when I’m already on FB and it suddenly kicks me off and wants me to log in again.
Big Brother is watching. Something just doesn’t “feel” right.
havent been able to access my profile since friday.started a new account up and my old profile isnt on anywhere….
This is the first time this has happened to me. I am really good at cleaning up my applications and my restricting things. This does not seem right at all. I can on my husband’s account. Something smells fishy.
for the past two or three days mine has not been working and wont let me log on at all
for the past 2 or 3 days mine hasn’t been working. is it normal for it to go that long?
Same here as well.I’ve been getting this error for the last 5 days and it’s f***ing irritating.Oh well,I’ll live with MSN however damn FB programmers still doing nothing to fix it.
its been happening with me for more than two to three days i think, im trying to enter a friends profile, and, each time i get(Profile Unavailable
Sorry, this profile is not available at the moment. Please try again shortly.) AHH!! why? im tired of all this shit, and im sure that the same person did not delete its profile, coz i can enter the mini facbk from my cllphone n from there i can see its mini profile. SO what to do???
I’m having the same problem as everyone else too! It’s been about 14 hours since I can’t sign onto facebook. All my other friends can except for me!
Does anyone know whats really going on? Are they deleting my facebook account? I mean when my friends look at my account my profile is still there I just can’t log on.
If this has happened to anyone else how many hours did it take for you to finally be able to log onto facebook?
Someone please help!
It has currently been all day since I couldnt log in and I am getting really freaked because I am an addict and my crops are ready in farmtown, I have a chicken ready in about 2 minutes and this is really starting to f*cking bug me.
Did u ever figure out what made this happen and how did u fix it??
It’s called a ‘life’, go get one losers.
You’re such losers, you’re complaining about not being able to spend every minute of your life on facebook you creepy bastards. People are starving in Africa but you fuckers never quit bitching about little things.
I wish you all rot in hell.
oh my goodness , you are a very rude person , some people do real communicating on facebook with family who lives long distance , you have your own opinion and you should keep it to yourself .
Don’t take a heart about it Jane, sometimes, something have a negative thought and others have a positive thought
Looks like there a Kanye West in every crowd these days. Or in this case – here’s Mike just stumbling through a thread on his way to assisting starving Africans and stopping just long enough to berate a group of total strangers that are having a conversation he obviously has no interest in.
It would seem to me that at least the others in this thread were in search of an answer to an issue they were having. While Mike has nothing to do but troll forums looking for an opportunity to rant at someone in a public place. Talk about needing a life.
That Mike definatly needs to get a life himself. Why was he here in the first pace, …..I think because he has no life and is so frustrated he takes it out with rude comments.
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good point , hehe
i’ve got to admit, everyone is blinded to its addiction.
You self-righteous prig. We’re all addicted to something. For some of us, it’s a facebook addiction. Have a little compassion you b*a*s*t*a*r*d. And may YOU rot in hell you little turd.
You’re very smug and judgmental. We all have addictions. Some of us are addicted to FB. And who are you to assume that just because we’re on FB we’re not giving back to the world? I happen to work my butt off for a small nonprofit that builds water wells in Africa. Give me a break.
Wow mike!! First of all, we can’t fly on over to Africa and shower them with food. Guess what, if I could….I would. You’re clearly just a very negative person!
People are starving in Africa and you’re here starting flame wars. Why are you still breathing?
How dare you talk to your father like that.
I wish you rot in hell too Mike.
Why don’t you get yourself a job and earn a living instead of bitching about ppl that is complaining about their FB error.
Why don’t you get a job and feed those people in Africa you dumb ass.
-Agreed with Jane-
Jeez Mike, a bit more understanding please! Facebook is an important means of contact for people who aren’t living close to their friends and family and that is very, very real! And it can be very very important, especially when something awful happens in your life, as just happened to me. I would feel so much less isolated now if I could access facebook. And for your information: the people I can’t contact now are in Africa!
Seriously? Is facebook taking over the world. People are getting so offended over FACEBOOK. A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE ON THE INTERNET. Seriously, It’s even lamer than myspace. I bet some people on here would die for facebook. lmfao.
HAHAHAHAAHA why, hello mike! u know, some people ACTUALLY have a social life. PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE FRIENDS!! :O woah.. that must have come as a shock to u huh? well, you must be a huge hit in school dances……….. (hahaha u suck)
Mike you are a egg head get a life and jog on!!!!!
says the guy trolling message boards to “call people out”…
hey mike… do you know what is more annoying than facebook being down… YOU SIR
Why are you here if you have no interest in the subject? What’s wrong, can’t get in either?
u know wat? FUCK U. Telling us to rot in hell is not very polite. I mean seriously? FB is fucking awesome.
Mike why dont you get a life? Why are you on here if you are not interested?
It seem’s the only loser here is you. Have you nothing better to do?
I wish you would starve
hey mike your the loser just because people like to keep in contact with family and friends via facebook you dont have the right to call them creepy bastards maybe you should look in the mirror
Same problem as everyone else here. Been 36 hours now since getting site maintenance message. Tried switching off modem, PC, clearing cache, cookies etc but still the same message. The others in my household can access their FB ok from the same PC. Its a joke that FB does not have a customer service dept, call centre.
Same message, been off all day (About 15 hours).
Also my HTC Hero is linked to my facebook, so all of my contacts have lost there live status and pictures from facebook too…..so clearing cache etc won’t make a difference as definately a problem at facebooks end.
Hope they fix it soon
I just got the exact same error! I was chatting on Facebook when my session “timed out” and I was forced to log out. Now every time I log in I get that stupid message. I thought my account was being suspended but I see that it happens to a lot of people… wtf is going on??
same problem here… can’t access my account…
Account Unavailable
Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.
and when my friend search my profile
Profile Unavailable
Sorry, this profile is not available at the moment. Please try again shortly.
=( need help!
I have the same problems. Do you found a solution??
i have the same problem do you have any answers to why this as happened???
My 6500s Nokia not logging in facebook. Temperarily unavailable account.
yh my facebook hasnt been working for a couple of hours and ive been doing some reaserch on the topic… lots of people are having the same trouble yes? and everyone wants to know how long before facebook will be working..well throught the time its stopped working ive looked at all the people whos accounts arient working… do not delete your cookies or anything like that.. its just facebook looking through your profile to check if your doing anything that goes against their rules.
most people only have to wait approx a day before theirs starts working and some have waited for 5 or more days!
which is rediculous!
and its all due to some small thing..
so people who are experiancing this problem your account is NOT! being blocked or deleted so please do not worry… just be patient and simply wait until it works… i know its hard but still there isnt much more you can do.
thank you, finaly someone explained this clearly.
okay… i hope it doesnt happen again though…
how do you know this? you provide no proof that your explanation is correct.
i am so worry about site maintenance problem,i am facing this problom about 10 hours and still not able to log in,, i am addicted to facebook. i have cleared all history,cookies,plugged in and out my internet devise wsiwth off devise and p.c. but no solution, can anybody tell me that is there maximum limit of ristriction days?
mine just went down. I’m worried about my crops on FarmTown….lol! hope it comes back soon
omg same heree. i was on at 1am last night and it worked then i wake up today at like 10 and it had the high maintence thing. my facebook crops will be done at 5. im gonna be really pissed if it doesnt work then!!!! how come only some accountsdon’t work.. wow this is soo damn gayy
do you mean farmville?
lol
I too have farmville, mafia wars, and Restauraunt city, and Cafeworld to go to
i no really
my entire farms gonna be dead
iv been locked out for 2 days
dude i know all my shit is dead =/ i lost all my crops and money =/
I do not know what has happened to the human race that people have such dirty mouths and are so rude. It requires a little more intelligence to communicate effectively without the use of profanity or being just plane rude. This thread is another validation of the onslaught of our changed society. Come on people, raise the bar!
I too enjoy facebook and communicate with family and friends on there. It is annoying to have it being maintenanced. Certainly not a reason to use the filthy language on here or slam anyone for wondering what happened or why FB is down.
Enjoy your day and move on. FB will probably be back in due time and everyone can talk again.
What the fuck ever. I have been locked out of my FB account for 6 days now because of “site maintenance.” This, to me, is irritating enough to warrant profanity.
Unless you’re a member of Facebook’s IT team, you shouldn’t feel offended by the dirty mouths of others. I learned this in kindergarten.
Wait, i take that back…if you’re a member of Facebook’s IT team, you should be ashamed as a motherfucker.
well fucking said ,no need for this bloody shit language
my account was disabled a 4am today and its kept saying “Account has been disabled” an after 10 hours of trying to get in, it now says “Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance”
Can someone please tell me what is going on?
did anyone get back on fb mines been off 3 days????
me too… i dont know what to do with it…
Omfg i got home from school at 3pm tried to log on and this stupid thing came on i thought it was my computer but wen my cousin logged in she went straight to hers….i gave it til 7pm almost 4 hours and it still didnt work it kept saying something bout site maintenance thats been going on for more then 7 hours now….its 10:00pm right now and im still locked out of my facebook due to watever they’re doing on der…dis isnt the first dis happened it jus usually didnt take this long now i wont let me log in at all!!! ugggghhhh facebook is getting really irriatating :/….dey need to get it together.Cuz no website as big as that should be locking people out of their Own account! ughhh facebook im going bac to myspace lol
damn… it’s really weird… i was able to log in yesterday and tonight i can’t! it shows the same damned message… and i need to tend to my farmville crops soon or my crops will wilt and die…
clearing your cookies does no good because it’s whatever server your facebook account is on. I have two accounts, one I can log into, the other I have errors – hence they are on two different servers. Either way it’s still poor service. Figure that, MySpace working much better than Facebook?
any ideas with the site maintenance virus yet???
Facebook has been down since Sunday. Wow, this has been days. What gives?
i just got my message like an hour agoo… when will it work againn… ): i nned to havest my crops on farmville. and my family is giving me a hard time cuz theres stupid works and there making fun of mee. gahhh i need it to work. when will it work again… ? ): it worked like 5 hours agooo
Account Unavailable
Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience. >>>>> can someone define few hours please… it’s been 24 hours already
a few hours is “supposed” to be 3 did urs ever work?
I am having the same exact problem as everyone else. My fb account was working this morning. When I tryed to lob back in around 4:30 it said account unvailable for site maintanence, its ben saying that for the whole day and it is now 2:27am now and still my account is unavailable. I am really getting frustrated, does anyone know what is happening
im having a site maintenance problem in facebook, cant access my act its been 48 hrs already, im afraid my crops in farm would be dead… what wud i do… pls answer my problem.. tanx!
My Facebook account is down for “maintenance” EVERY DAY. Lemon server! I would be ashamed to provide such service.
woooow thats sooo shity! everytime i try and logg into my facebook i get…. Account Unavailable
Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Facebook: # (650)543-4800
I am still going through this problem with Facebook for the past 4 days, I have found a # for facebook. I was able to talk to a live person. They said that it was some kind of bug, but they do not offer technical support over the phone. But I figure, why not swamp them with calls, since they do not answer any of our emails….
Facebook:(650)543-4800
did your account work after ????and how long did it take to work is it days or more than that???
By the did everything went back to normal your photos, friends list etc.
MY facebook says it unavailable??? wtf! its been 3 days and it still wont work! wat do i do?!?!?
pff got the same problem like all of u
cant logging to my account “Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance” bla bla bla does everyone of u got finaly his/her account back? im having that problem for 2 days i deleted my browser history and nothing happend still w8ing any help guys?…
My facebook account hasn’t let me on for 5 days because of that account unavailable because of site maintenance thing. Will it go away sometime or should i just make a new one?
Tana:)
and now it down again
i got the solution
click on tools which you will see up at the screen
thn click on delete browsin history
delete everythin nd thn try loggin in fb again
i got it this way…best of luck
when u delete that so every thing pics etc are delete from ur id or not. . .? ? ? ?
@anhaar. i’ve tried deleting my history but it seems i still can’t log in my fb!!how
not working for me either :/