Frustration as Facebook fails

Social media users were left twiddling their thumbs after Facebook crashed about 1.20pm today.

The outage appeared to be widespread, and included New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, Japan, Finland, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.

Both desktop and mobile sites have crashed, including the Facebook app.

Looks pretty widespread... #facebook #facebookdown @aussieoutages pic.twitter.com/bX3v8fXRcM— Caddie Brain (@CaddieBrain) May 9, 2017

Users shut out from the social media site took to Twitter to express their frustration.

Facebook in New Zealand is now back up and running; however, other countries are still experiencing widespread problems.

It is unclear what caused the error.

Comments

Des Claquers Tue, 09/05/2017 - 8:26pm #

Hey, it disappeared! I was on this damn thing and it just wasn't, (man). Cold turkey to get the monkey off the cats' back*.

*Jazz muso argot, 1959.