Facebook crashes; goes offline

Facebook crashes; goes offline

Facebook crashed this afternoon, leaving millions of users without access to the network.

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The site, which has about 1 billion monthly users, displayed an error message to users who were trying to log on.

In a rare outage, visitors to the Facebook website just at about 4:33pm were greeted with a message reading "Service Unavailable."

Users of the Facebook mobile app also saw a network error.

The development sparked a spike in Twitter usage, with the hashtag #FacebookDown trending globally.

At 4:52pm, however, Facebook back online.

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