Facebook is back after global crash

New Delhi May 9 (IANS) People thronged Twitter after social media giant Facebook on Tuesday faced an outage in Asia Australia New Zealand and some parts of North America.

Facebook users got an error message: Sorry something went wrong and we ll get it fixed as soon as we can.

Later a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch in an emailed statement: Earlier today some Facebook users were unable to access Facebook briefly due to a technical issue. We have now fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

According to DownDetector.com the outage which also appears to be affecting Facebook s mobile app and Messenger also spread to parts of North America.

Many social media users took to Twitter to talk about the rare Facebook outage.

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