Panic spreads as Facebook suffers brief outage across US, Europe & Asia
Social media users found themselves in a brief moment of panic Thursday after Facebook outages were experienced across parts of the US, Europe and Asia.
A number of reports of the social network being down surfaced around 08:00 GMT, according to downdetector.com, with a notable increase shortly before 11:00 GMT.
This just happened. People be panicking in 3... 2... 1... #FacebookDownpic.twitter.com/n0q2SbmyE0
— John Santillana (@profinblack) February 22, 2018
Facebook users from Hong Kong, Philippines, Sweden, Denmark, the US, and a number of other countries were greeted with a message that read “Sorry, something went wrong” when trying to access the site.
#facebookdown - this will be a productive afternoon pic.twitter.com/gICnNcRtvD
— Katrin Scheib (@kscheib) February 22, 2018
Social media users took to Twitter to report the outage, while also sharing gifs and memes describing the panic they’re feeling as a result.
*twitter rn* #facebookdownpic.twitter.com/qBHqoKkUJ5
— chasin dyke (@ItsMeJason_) February 22, 2018
#facebookdown EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 pic.twitter.com/7bqNWFzg26
— Claide John V Ong (@ClaideJohn) February 22, 2018
Oh dear. Someone broke @facebook#Australia. 🤔#FacebookDownpic.twitter.com/hASC5gDSQI
— Michaela Miles 🖖 (@_MichaelaMiles) February 22, 2018
After @facebook being down #facebookdown People coming to twitter be like pic.twitter.com/zu2es61azB
— Man's Not Hot (@blfrze) February 22, 2018
The social-networking site now appears to be back up and running for most users. Facebook has yet to comment on the outage.
#facebookdownpic.twitter.com/qhY30uLvmy
— Kenny Roberts (@KennyBlackGod) February 22, 2018
