FACEBOOK IS DOWN: Social network faces global outage

Some are taking to Twitter in
panic, or at least mocked
panic.
— Anuya J (@
boozeandshooze)
June 19, 2014
FACEBOOK IS DOWN!
FACEBOOK IS DOWN!
FACEBOOK IS DOWN! *runs
around like headless
chicken*
— Endigo Skyborn
(@
EndigoOverworld)
June 19, 2014
R.I.P Facebook
Others are more amused
than shocked.
— Ben Thompson
(@monkbent)
June 19, 2014
Zuck: What is Yo? FB
employee: It’s like Poke,
but…actually it’s Poke.
Zuck: I give up. Shut the
whole thing down.
pic.twitter.com/
JEsIF8sywA
— Professional
Heckler
(@HecklerForever)
June 19, 2014
BREAKING: Facebook
down, announces
‘surrender’
— Mr. SGAG
(@SGAG_SG)
June 19, 2014
First reaction when I get
the “Facebook Error”
message… pic.twitter.com/
KCQolEkNUs
— Simon Thomsen
(@SimonThomsen)
June 19, 2014
“Where were you in the
Great Facebook Crash of
2014, dad?” “On Twitter
son, but I Instagramed
about it”
— Rory Cellan-
Jones (@ruskin147)
June 19, 2014
Facebook is down in UK –
Paxman will be distraught
but at least his Twitter is
working
Updated at 9.22am BST
9.18am 09:18
This is the first time
Facebook has suffered a
widespread outage which
has lasted for more than a
few minutes.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
founder and chief executive
was famously quoted as
saying that the social
network would never go
down, it would never crash.
9.15am 09:15
Facebook has suffered a
major outage that has hit
both its website and
smartphone and tablet apps
across the globe.
The outage prevents users
accessing the social network
leading many to decamp to
other services like Google+
and Twitter.