Facebook crashes for 20 minutes and sparks rash of Twitter parodies
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Facebook crashed for around 20 minutes this afternoon locking millions out of their accounts.
The firm has said it is 'looking into the issue'.
Thousands took to Twitter to complain when they realised they could not access the site.
Twitter users were quick to post their outrage
'Sorry, something went wrong,' the site's homepage read around 3:45 p.m.
'We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.'
The site's downtime began at around 3:45, and lasted for around 20 minutes, according to Down Detector
The status page for Facebook developers did not show any anomalies, though the data appeared to have been last updated prior to the outage.
The site's downtime began at around 3:45, and lasted for around 20 minutes, according to Down Detector
Even t-shirts appeared online
After roughly 20 minutes the site was back up.
However, within that time users were able to produce a range of parody tweets.
Denny's tweeted it's followers 'if facebook is down for you try facebooth - just come to Denny's sit in a booth and have a face to face convo with your buddies.'
The site also suffered notable outages in early August and mid-June.
In its most recent quarter, Facebook reported revenue of $2.91 billion.
That works out to $22,453.70 of revenue per minute.
This shows a 20-minute outage could cost the company nearly half a million dollars.
Facebook shares fell 1.1 percent, though they were lower before the outage.
Denny's was also quick to jump on the problem
#facebookdown became a trending topic on Twitter
'Sorry, something went wrong,' Facebook's homepage read around 3:45 p.m.
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