Updated at 7:45 a.m. after the outage was resolved.
Social media titan Facebook was down for a large number of users Monday morning, leaving those affected people less than thrilled but still willing to make a few jokes.
Last week, a Facebook issue took down websites as large as CNN, BuzzFeed, and Yelp, whose visitors were redirected to a Facebook error page, so scrutiny of the site’s performance is higher than normal.
Two VentureBeat writers and and the site Down For Everyone Or Just Me confirmed that Facebook was not functioning normally this morning. The site Down Right Now indicated that based on usage, Facebook was suffering a “likely service disruption.” However, two VentureBeat writers said Facebook was working smoothly for them.
Some folks on Twitter used the opportunity to crack jokes about the situation:
Heart attacks crossing many states.Facebook is currently down for “numerous” users.
— Kevin Clamato (@KevinClamato) February 11, 2013
Facebook is down. Pope resigned. Apocalypse obviously coming. #facebook instagr.am/p/Vl9mqWEAko/
— Alex M Morales (@QbanWong) February 11, 2013
#Facebook is down. Productivity goes up 500% at offices worldwide..including here @majic100ottawa #MajicMornings
— Stuntman Stu (@stuntmanstu) February 11, 2013
We’ve contacted Facebook about the outage and we will update this post if we hear back.
Mark Zuckerberg photo via Guillaume Paumier/Flickr
