What is Wrong with Facebook tonight

Facebook went offline for several users on Thursday, with the world's most preferred social media network informing users that "something failed".

When checking out Facebook.com, instead of seeing the normal homescreen or news feed, customers were welcomed with an empty screen as well as a short mistake message.

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

The blackout began at around 5.30 pm BST however, for the majority of customers, showed up to have been fixed around 20 minutes after.

Down Detector, which looks at records of prominent services being down, presented outages in the UK, Europe as well as the US.

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

The internet site went down on Thursday afternoon and brief-ly showed up to function once more for some customers.

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

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook president, was at an occasion placed on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset firm Facebook owns.

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