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:

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?