Facebook users weren’t able to log onto the world’s largest social network for about 30 minutes Thursday morning after a global outage. The resulting frustration launched a Twitter hashtag and a slew of commentary — and jokes — on the social platform.
Facebook down, everyone on twitter 😄 #FacebookDown
— Aleena علینہ (@AnmolAleena) June 19, 2014
Ahhhhhh…. It’s like it’s not broken..! #facebookdown
— Rob (@robbynoz) June 19, 2014
Okay, it’s been about four minutes now and I can’t handle it anymore. #facebookdown
— Thom Rylance (@thomrylance) June 19, 2014
This day was named Black Thursday for #Facebook#facebookdown
— Florian Jacoby (@FlorianJacoby) June 19, 2014
#FacebookDown.. And the world stops:)
— Praveen Saini (@Aghorii2) June 19, 2014
The $168 billion company resolved the problem that affected its apps, website and messaging services. The outage appeared to be more widespread than during past disruptions, affecting areas worldwide.
“We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “We are sorry for any inconvenience.”
Users saw a generic error message on the site, reading “Sorry, something went wrong,” near 1 a.m. PST. Many people logged onto Twitter (TWTR) and other social networks to complain, and the hashtag #facebookdown began trending worldwide.
Facebook (FB) has faced other outages over the past few years, but they are rare. During one in 2010, the site went down for almost 2 1/2 hours. The company explained the disruption with an almost 400-word clarification and apology on its engineering blog.