Facebook is down and everyone across the globe is freaking out
UPDATE: May 9, 2017, 12:38 p.m. SGT Facebook has sent a statement saying: "Earlier today, some Facebook users were unable to access Facebook briefly due to a technical issue. We have now fixed the issue and apologize for any inconvenience caused.”
If your Facebook page was down for a couple of hours — it wasn't just you.
People all across the globe realised on Monday night that the social media platform was down. People in Asia were waking up to it on a Tuesday morning.
Trying to login to facebook, and got this error again?
What's wrong with this @facebook #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/VJbhJ0k2yR— Roberto Onggo Kusumo (@RobertoOK96) May 9, 2017
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And by the looks of it on Twitter, they were pretty freaked out about it.
Naturally, #facebookdown started trending.
OMG!!! #facebook is down and I can't even get to Facebook to tell all my facebook friends that facebook is down!!
— Bruce Krochman (@bkrochman) May 9, 2017
Facebook is down #facebookdown @facebook #facebookisdown pic.twitter.com/WNlUzZu0dC
— Zonily (@kuyazee) May 9, 2017
holy crap, facebook's down! everyone start rioting and looting, the end of the world is here!
— Chris Hayward (@ellji) May 9, 2017
#FacebookDown Do I have to talk to people in real life now?! #panic pic.twitter.com/hr7FlkaAe1
— Caroline Williams (@caroline_nz) May 9, 2017
#Facebook is down! Repent! REPENT!!!
— David Cairns (@DaveIRCairns) May 9, 2017
Facebook employees right now.#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/AkMVJYL7By
— den🍍 (@dennnreyes) May 9, 2017
Even officials got in on the action.
We don't mean to alarm you but FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!! How will we know what you ate for lunch!? pic.twitter.com/j3z6Uf4q13
— NSW Police (@nswpolice) May 9, 2017
According to Down Detector, Facebook appears to on the fritz in the Asia-Pacific region and on the West Coast of the U.S., spreading down to Mexico.
Image: screenshot/ down detector
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