Note: Facebook Working on Fixing Fan Count Bug for Pages
Over the last couple days, some Page administrators have been noticing incorrect counts for the number of people who like their Facebook Page. Facebook has confirmed that this is a bug, and is working to fix it today.
According to a Facebook spokesperson, “There was a bug that caused an accounting error for the number of people who like a Page. We are working hard to fix this bug and restore the counts as quickly as possible. No fans or data was lost, and news feed distribution has not been affected.”
We’ll let you know as Facebook makes progress on fixing the issue.
June 11th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
I was wondering what was up with my pages. Thanks for the post.
June 11th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Wow – I was wondering what was going on. Thanks for the heads up!!
June 12th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
[...] Note: Facebook Working on Fixing Fan Count Bug for Pages [...]
June 12th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
They’ve been having “accounting” errors for months. Starting with groups, and some friends lists, now fan pages. And their accounting errors expand to their financials claims as well.
June 15th, 2010 at 6:07 am
When are they going to fix Groups bug?! I can’t see them under INFO tab and I cannot see my friends groups either!
June 16th, 2010 at 8:30 am
[...] would stabilize. Then, Friday night I did a twitter search (don’t do that enough) and found this article on InsideFacebook.com: Note: Facebook Working on Fixing Fan Count Bug For [...]
June 19th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
I need this bug to be fixed ASAP. Suffering from this bug now :(
June 30th, 2010 at 6:56 am
[...] blogs called out the fact that fan counts and growth were being reported inaccurately by Facebook. Facebook corrected this, it seemed, as our fan count went from 69k to 74k overnight. However, something strange happened [...]
July 7th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
We’ve been talking to FB support for 1 month now to fix this. There was a 3 week period where fans were dissappearing or not being counted. So far this has not been restored and FB are no longer replying! New fans are being added now, but we’ve got a 3 week gap where thousands of fans dissappeared!!! Doesn’t inspire confidence in their ad-platform at all