Last Thursday afternoon, something went wrong with Facebook.com website that caused 4 hours outrage.

Millions of people around the world needed to vent out their troubles and Twitter is the best place to express it. Many users went to Twitter to discuss their horrors of living in a Facebook-free world. Tweet of the hashtag #facebookdown swelled the Twitter. This makes the #facebookdown theme on Twitter turned worldwide-trending merchandise.

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Almost 4 hours after an outage was observed. This outage shows a taste of what the end times would be like. It ignited humorous jabs from Twitter users. It affected users from Europe, Australia, North America, and India.

Users were not greeted with the usual Facebook homepage. An error page of Facebook stated that sorry, something went wrong and they are working on it and will get it fixed as soon as they can, reported by iSurfPaducah. This error message started at approximately 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Facebook apologizes for the inconvenience, will thoroughly investigate on this issue to learn from it, and ensures that they are there when people need them. They have immediately discovered the problem and fixed it. They denied that they were hacked at that time and blamed the outage on a change that affected their configuration systems. The Facebook Graph API is the primary way for apps to read and write to the Facebook social graph and became unavailable at that time.

According to Tech Times, the last major Facebook outage happened in January. In North America, Asia, and Europe, a 20-minute outage earlier this month was already experienced by desktop and mobile users. Some users in the United States could not access Facebook on both desktop and mobile early August. They also expressed their disappointment via Twitter. Users in Los Angeles even made a huge number of calls to the emergency service number 911 to ask about the restoration of the service.

On the other hand, Facebook Messenger and mobile app were working just fine during the outage.

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