What is Wrong with Facebook tonight

Facebook went offline for numerous individuals on Thursday, with the world's most prominent social media network telling customers that "something went wrong".

When visiting Facebook.com, instead of seeing the typical homescreen or news feed, users were greeted with an empty display as well as a short mistake message.

" Sorry, something failed. We're dealing with it and we'll get it repaired as quickly as we can," the message checks out.

The interruption started at around 5.30 pm BST but, for a lot of customers, showed up to have actually been settled around 20 minutes after.

Down Detector, which collates records of popular services being down, displayed interruptions in the UK, Europe and the US.

Naturally, individuals took to Twitter to have their say.

The web site went down on Thursday afternoon and also brief-ly appeared to function once more for some individuals.

A spokesman for Facebook has actually said they are considering what took place.

At The Same Time, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook president, went to an occasion placed on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset firm Facebook owns.

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