What's Wrong with Facebook

Facebook went offline for lots of individuals on Thursday, with the globe's most popular social network informing customers that "something failed".

When going to Facebook.com, rather than seeing the typical homescreen or news feed, customers were welcomed with a blank display as well as a brief error message.

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

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

Down Detector, which collects records of preferred solutions being down, displayed failures in the UK, Europe as well as the United States.

Of course, people took to Twitter to have their say.

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

A spokesman for Facebook has actually claimed they are checking out what occurred.

At The Same Time, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, was at an event placed on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset business Facebook owns.

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