Technology
For a brief moment of bliss, Facebook was down
Try going to Facebook.com on your browser, and you’ll probably see nothing this morning.
Just after 9 a.m. PT, users started posting on Twitter about the social media site not loading. For many users the site was just a blank white page.
The Facebook mobile app also seemed to down as well this morning.
DownDetector showed a surge of outage reports and its outage map included North and South America, Europe, parts of Asia and the Middle East.
The posts (and jokes) about the widespread outage started coming in fast.
facebook is down
can they take the rest of the web with it
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) August 3, 2018
We reached out to Facebook to find out what was going on and will update this story once they respond.
This story is developing…
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