Something Wrong with Facebook

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

When checking out Facebook.com, rather than seeing the typical homescreen or news feed, users were greeted with an empty screen and also a brief mistake message.

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

The failure started at around 5.30 pm BST yet, for most individuals, showed up to have actually been resolved around 20 mins after.

Down Detector, which looks at reports of popular services being down, displayed blackouts in the UK, Europe and the US.

Naturally, people took to Twitter to have their say.

The website dropped on Thursday afternoon and brief-ly showed up to work once again for some customers.

A spokesperson for Facebook has stated they are considering what happened.

On The Other Hand, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook president, was at an event put on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset firm Facebook owns.

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