Sorry something Went Wrong Facebook Error

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

When checking out Facebook.com, rather than seeing the regular homescreen or information feed, individuals were greeted with a blank screen and also a brief error message.

" Sorry, something failed. We're working on it and we'll get it repaired as quickly as we can," the message reviews.

The outage began at around 5.30 pm BST however, for most users, showed up to have actually been fixed around 20 mins after.

Down Detector, which collects reports of popular solutions being down, showed blackouts in the UK, Europe and also the US.

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

The web site decreased on Thursday afternoon and brief-ly appeared to work once again for some users.

A spokesman for Facebook has actually stated they are looking into what occurred.

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook president, went to an occasion placed on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset company Facebook has.

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