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Why won't Facebook and Twitter load on my laptop or iPhone today? - Tokyo - 01-08-2014 09:50 PM
I woke up this morning and the Facebook app on my iPhone wasn't loading new posts or messages so I went to my laptop and tried to log onto Facebook but couldn't load the page. I tried two other browsers and still no luck. Then I tried twitter and the same thing is true, it won't load on my laptop or the iPhone app.
I, of course, checked with http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and both websites are up.
I restarted my wireless router, no change. I have had no issues with any other sites I've tried.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this and/or how to fix it?
Well at least I don't seem to be the only one.
I have noticed the same issue with a few other random sites. Mostly smaller sites though.
My ISP is Time Warner Cable
So it looks like it was an issue with Time Warner Cable. Everything is working now for me.
- Giuseppe - 01-08-2014 10:05 PM
Probably your internet connection went off
- Big Red - 01-08-2014 10:21 PM
I'm having the same issue (with facebook, I don't know about twitter) and I can't seem to find any information anywhere about what is going on. There don't seem to be any official reports of outages or problems as of the moment. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but you definitely are not the only one having problems.
*EDIT* After doing some more digging it seems to be an issue with time warner cable's internet. From what I can gather time warner has an outage in their internet system, but it's not a complete outage. Most users are able to access some webpages (such as yahoo, google) but not others (such as facebook, espn). I am going to call them in a little while if it's noy resolved to see if I can get any answers.
- David - 01-08-2014 10:28 PM
Having the same issue with several random sites (Facebook / nps.gov / espn). It started this morning and I have reset my cable box and router. Everything else seems to be working...
Edit: Just ran a DNS test and it seems like my ISPs DNS service isn't working properly. You could try overriding that and use a free service such as OpenDNS or wait until the ISP fixes their service.
Edit 2: Confirming that my ISP is Time Warner. Seems like that is a common denominator.
- Beth Anne - 01-08-2014 10:44 PM
I'm having the same problem. Can't access Twitter or Facebook, on my iPad or laptop.
It must be something relating to the WiFi -- when I turned off the WiFi connection on my iPhone, and just used 3G, I was able to use both of the apps.
(I also have Time Warner Cable. Possible it's an outage/issue on their end?)