Facebook crashed on Tuesday and people took to Twitter to lob complaints, laugh and joke about the outage. Website monitoring site DownRightNow noted that the social network went down at around 9:10 p.m. ET.
Those who tried logging on saw this error message:
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As of 11:00 p.m. ET, the site is back up. It is unclear what sparked the outage and how widespread the problem was, NBC News reported.
Were you affected by the outage? Tell us what you did to pass time in the comments section below.
You can't even go on Facebook to complain about how Facebook is down. Tweeting FTW.
— Jenny He (@jenn_he) June 19, 2013
Facebook is down? Good! pic.twitter.com/2ESwBbApyP
— John Yowan (@Yowan) June 19, 2013
OMG Facebook is down! How will I talk to my friends now?!!?!
— Brian Stilson (@brstilson) June 19, 2013
Oh no Facebook is down zomg the sky is falling !!!! #facebookdown #networkerror
— God (@TheGoodGodAbove) June 19, 2013
FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!! HURRY!! BEFORE IT COMES BACK.. RUN!!! WE ARE FREE!!!! #facebookdown
— Rick XX6 (@RickXX6) June 19, 2013
Is Facebook down? Yes, actually the whole world goes down when Facebook goes down.
— ǤƱĪÐØ™ (@furiousguido) June 19, 2013
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. #facebookdown
— Brian Stilson (@brstilson) June 19, 2013
Facebook is down but worldwide productivity has just increased by 90%.
— John Yowan (@Yowan) June 19, 2013
Facebook is down, feel free to panic: http://t.co/GcXKUDo2P7
— SFist (@SFist) June 19, 2013
Facebook is down. How will I know what my friend from high school whom I haven't seen in 15 years ate for dinner?!?! #Facebook
— ThisHeartsOnFire (@JustAnotherRich) June 19, 2013
FACEBOOK IS DOWN REPEAT FACEBOOK IS DOWN QUICK GET TO THE BOMB SHELTER THE APOCALYPSE IS HAPPENING.
— Sam Taunton (@samtaunton) June 19, 2013
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