What is Wrong with Facebook tonight | Update 2019

Facebook went offline for several customers on Thursday, with the world's most popular social network informing individuals that "something failed".

When visiting Facebook.com, as opposed to seeing the typical homescreen or news feed, individuals were greeted with a blank display and also a brief error message.

" Sorry, something went wrong. We're servicing it as well as we'll get it dealt with as soon as we can," the message checks out.

The blackout started at around 5.30 pm BST but, for the majority of customers, appeared to have been solved around 20 minutes after.

Down Detector, which collects records of popular services being down, displayed failures in the UK, Europe and the US.

Obviously, individuals took to Twitter to have their say.

The web site went down on Thursday afternoon and also brief-ly showed up to work once more for some users.

A spokesperson for Facebook has stated they are considering what happened.

On The Other Hand, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, was at an occasion placed on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset firm Facebook possesses.

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