Facebook is down… or at least it was for a short while today.
Facebook is down! At approximately 12:30pm Eastern Time, Facebook and Instagram networks both stopped working. After about 15 minutes, service resumed around 12:43pm Eastern Time and the websites and associated mobile apps started functioning normally again. Facebook has yet to comment on social media in regards to the outage, however there was a large influx of Twitter posts in regards to the outage.
One twitter parody account (@WillMcAvoyACN) posted the following message:
Facebook is down, which means America will see a spike in workplace productivity today.
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) September 24, 2015
Of course, the mass hysteria of people unable to use Facebook ended abruptly once the service resumed, but we’re interested to learn what caused the outage in the first place. Any thoughts?