Without a way to post, creep and comment on things within the world’s most popular social network, many turned to Twitter with their updates.
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Facebook.com was down for some users on Thursday, although the mobile app and Messenger services appeared to be working.
When users tried to open or refresh their Facebook pages a little after 12:30 p.m. ET today, they were greeted not with their news feed but with a largely blank screen that simply said, “Sorry, something went wrong”.
“Another wrote “#facebookdown means we will not get updates from these teams we by no means requested to hitch, or see pics of what distant cousins had for lunch”.
A similar Facebook outage happened last summer. Stories from the USA suggest some users dialled 911 to report the issue. Even so this was a huge problem for millions around the world and they needed somewhere to vent out their troubles, and what better place than Twitter. The incident prompted Sgt.
“We’re a bit overloaded right now…Please try again later, or download Skype to use it any time”, Skype said in its first reaction after sign-in issue.
After fours of outage, Facebook has restored its website in Europe.
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“We immediately discovered the issue and fixed it, and everyone should now be able to connect”, says Facebook in a statement.
