What is Wrong with Facebook today

Facebook went offline for lots of users on Thursday, with the globe's most prominent social media informing customers that "something failed".

When going to Facebook.com, as opposed to seeing the normal homescreen or information feed, users were welcomed with a blank screen as well as a short mistake message.

" Sorry, something went wrong. We're working with it and also we'll get it dealt with as soon as we can," the message reads.

The outage began at around 5.30 pm BST yet, for the majority of customers, showed up to have actually been settled around 20 minutes after.

Down Detector, which collects reports of popular services being down, presented failures in the UK, Europe and the United States.

Naturally, individuals took to Twitter to have their say.

The website decreased on Thursday mid-day and also brief-ly showed up to function once again for some customers.

A representative for Facebook has claimed they are exploring what occurred.

On The Other Hand, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, went to an occasion put on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset company Facebook possesses.

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