Facebook hit with brief outage

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Chris Perkins
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It's not just you, Facebook experienced a disruption at about 2:10 p.m. ET Friday, although it was back up quickly for many users.

The website Down for Everyone or Just Me listed Facebook as being offline across the board. Facebook'sperformance dashboard lists the site as having had a major outage.

Various users and news organizations on Twitter reported the news.

Is it down? RT if you're getting this message trying to load #Facebook. pic.twitter.com/mnL7t7vTBn— WCVB-TV Boston (@WCVB) September 17, 2015

This is not a drill..Facebook is down pic.twitter.com/Qq32WuC3pP— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) September 17, 2015

Rounding up some of the most yassss-worthy reactions to Facebook being down today :)— Media Steph (@Media__Steph) September 17, 2015

Service seems to be restored back to normal, but Facebook's Platform Status says there was a "Major Outage."

A representative for Facebook was not immediately available for comment.

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