A technical problem shuts “Facebook” down

On Wednesday Facebook was unavailable for a number of users mostly across Europe due to “technical difficulties”.

As the affected Users reported problems of accessing Facebook.com in many countries, including the UK, for about two hours, besides that, the users also reported on twitter that the social network’s applications of smartphone and tablets were also affected.

After the while of Facebook inaccessibility, the social networking website apologized for the incident and said the issue was now resolved, as the company said “Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users in Europe”

Also more isolated accounts of inaccessibility were posted by users in further afield places such as Pakistan and South Korea.

To be mentioned that, Facebook has about 850 million users worldwide and many users took to twitter to share information about the down time of Facebook, as the #facebookdown hash-tag became a trending topic on the micro-blogging site quickly.

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