What is Wrong with Facebook tonight

Facebook went offline for many customers on Thursday, with the world's most prominent social media telling customers that "something failed".

When seeing Facebook.com, instead of seeing the typical homescreen or news feed, users were welcomed with an empty screen as well as a brief mistake message.

" Sorry, something failed. We're working with it and also we'll get it repaired as soon as we can," the message checks out.

The outage began at around 5.30 pm BST yet, for a lot of customers, appeared to have actually been dealt with around 20 mins after.

Down Detector, which looks at reports of popular solutions being down, presented interruptions in the UK, Europe and also the United States.

Obviously, individuals took to Twitter to have their say.

The website went down on Thursday afternoon and brief-ly appeared to work again for some customers.

A representative for Facebook has actually stated they are checking into what took place.

On The Other Hand, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, went to an occasion put on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset company Facebook has.

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