Massive Facebook glitch floods users' feeds with celebrity posts – Sydney Morning Herald

Massive Facebook glitch floods users’ feeds with celebrity postsWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later.Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerRemember all those random celebrity pages you liked on Facebook when you were 14? Well, if you logged on to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon you certainly got a reminder.A serious glitch in Facebook’s algorithm has flooded users’ feeds with random fan messages posted to huge celebrity accounts such as Taylor Swift, Shakira, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga and Eminem.Fan posts made to celebrity pages such as Taylor Swift’s flooded user pages.Credit:Twitter user @RegannaSwiftUsers have clocked on to the meltdown and have started spamming celebrity accounts with posts and memes, exacerbating the chaos on the platform. More opportunistic users are posting QR codes to their PayPal and Cash App accounts or plugging their businesses and Spotify accounts.Downdetector, a site that tracks app and website meltdowns through user reports, shows a spike in complaints about Facebook from about 3.45pm on Wednesday.The scale of the glitch is enormous because it’s affecting some of Facebook’s most-followed accounts. They include the pages of Cristiano Ronaldo, which has 152 million followers, Shakira, which has 116 million and…
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