Panic As Facebook Crashes

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Users worldwide were unable to access the social network for 20 minutes as it suffered its longest outage within recent memory. When the world’s most popular social network crashes – everybody panics.

The site, which has 1.3 billion users around the world, went offline for half an hour on Thursday morning.

Within minutes, Facebook was a top trending topic on Twitter worldwide, with people jokingly asking: “Where were you when Facebook died?”

The outage was reported around the world; in countries including Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia, Japan and Holland.

On Twitter, users joked that they were lost without the social network.

Jon Pudny wrote: “It’s the end of the world … #Facebook is DOWN!!”

Jenny Oag said: “Oh my god. Facebook is down it’s the end of the world. Quick everyone, learn how to use a pen and get the candle lights out.”

Some pondered whether the internet stalwart’s demise was a sign of impending doom.

Aidan Spurrier wrote: “Facebook is down worldwide … the apocalypse has begun.”

Meanwhile Latika Bourke said: “Is this a sign of the impending rapture?”

But the panic was short-lived and by 9.30am users reported the site was functioning again.

So far, Facebook has not explained why the problem occurred.

Facebook crashed in the US in February this year, after previously going offline for four hours in October last year due to network maintenance.

The network has 1.3 billion monthly active users, making it one of the most popular websites in the world.