The social network giant, Facebook on Friday suffered a major outage affecting users across the globe, with users first reporting the social network as offline from 1:30pm on 27 March 2015.
Facebook's status page was yet to report any problems at the time of this publication. Facebook outage graph Graph on down detector showed enormous spikes in those who reported problems accessing Facebook and Facebook's features.
Most of the problems have been reported across western Europe, but the downtime is also affecting users in South America, the US, India and parts of Africa.
Down Right Now reports Facebook is "likely" to be suffering a "service disruption"
Users trying to access log in to Facebook were greeted with the following error message: "Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes. Thanks for your patience as we improve the site." The users were also given a link to a page set to explain why the service was experiencing anomalies.
UPDATE 08:00pm GMT +3(Nairobi, Kenya): Many users are now reporting that access to Facebook has been restored, although we are yet to hear anything official from the site's PR team.
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