I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and it made me switch from Windows (irrelevant). I connected Empathy to my Facebook account and it worked really well for a couple of days, and all of the sudden it tells me "Authentication failed for account Facebook (xxxxxxxxx)". Is there a solution to fixing this problem?
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Sometimes Facebook has issues with messengers that isn't its own. I recommend giving it some time - in my experience it's usually back up and working within 24 hours.
There seems to be no solution. Empathy worked fine for several years, even after upgrading to 13.04. Then after applying an update to a 12.10 system, empathy quite working on that system. After applying an update to my 13.04 system, empathize would no longer connect to facebook on that system. I fixed my problem by removing empathy and installing pidgin. Pidgin works. The problem has something to to do with unity integration.