Facebook is fully operational after a 30-minute outage which affected the social network's web and mobile site as well as connected apps.
Users who tried to access the site early Thursday were greeted with a message saying "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."
"Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 per cent. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused," a Facebook spokesperson told CNET.
Facebook did not disclose a specific reason for the outage.
The outage caused a short but intense storm of tweets, either complaining about the site's unavailability or making fun of it.
with Facebook down I almost went back to sharpening a stick into a spear. #facebookdown
— FacebookDownSurviror (@FbDownSurvivor) June 19, 2014
Either Facebook is down or Mark Zuckerberg just set everything to PRIVATE.
— 9GAG (@9GAG) June 19, 2014
Help needed: Is there another website to find out which Game of Thrones character people from my primary school are? #facebookdown
— James Martin (@Pundamentalism) June 19, 2014
Facebook's last notable outage was in February 2014, when the site briefly went down due to a technical issue.
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