Something Went Wrong Facebook

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

When visiting Facebook.com, rather than seeing the regular homescreen or information feed, customers were greeted with a blank display and also a short error message.

" Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and also we'll get it taken care of as soon as we can," the message reviews.

The interruption began at around 5.30 pm BST but, for the majority of users, appeared to have actually been solved around 20 minutes after.

Down Detector, which collects records of prominent services being down, displayed blackouts in the UK, Europe as well as the US.

Naturally, individuals took to Twitter to have their say.

The site dropped on Thursday mid-day and brief-ly appeared to work once again for some users.

A spokesperson for Facebook has actually said they are checking out what took place.

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook president, went to an event put on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset company Facebook owns.

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