Around 11.45 am on Tuesday, Facebook users around the world started experiencing problems connecting to the popular social media website. "Sorry, something went wrong," said a message. "We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can."
Also down were Instagram, the popular photo social media website that is owned by Facebook, and Tinder, the dating app that requires users to log in using Facebook.
Shortly after the problems were first noticed , a group of hackers calling themselves The Lizard Squad took to Twitter to claim credit for all the outages. The once-popular Myspace social media platform was also taken down.
On Monday, Lizard Squad had taken responsibility for hacking into the Malaysian Airlines website and posting a morbid message, "404-Plane not found".
It isn't clear what provoked this attack. But Whatsapp – the popular messaging app owned by Facebook – was still online, suggesting that the problem did not occur in Menlo Park, where Facebook's headquarters is located.
Since Twitter was the only social media site up and running, that's where users began to complain, and crack jokes about Facebook.
Barely an hour after it was down, Facebook was up and running. People again took to Twitter to share this information.
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Also down were Instagram, the popular photo social media website that is owned by Facebook, and Tinder, the dating app that requires users to log in using Facebook.
Shortly after the problems were first noticed , a group of hackers calling themselves The Lizard Squad took to Twitter to claim credit for all the outages. The once-popular Myspace social media platform was also taken down.
Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM, Hipchat #offline #LizardSquad
— Lizard Squad (@LizardMafia) January 27, 2015On Monday, Lizard Squad had taken responsibility for hacking into the Malaysian Airlines website and posting a morbid message, "404-Plane not found".
It isn't clear what provoked this attack. But Whatsapp – the popular messaging app owned by Facebook – was still online, suggesting that the problem did not occur in Menlo Park, where Facebook's headquarters is located.
Since Twitter was the only social media site up and running, that's where users began to complain, and crack jokes about Facebook.
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder are down. Twitter, let us go, we will finally be free.
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) January 27, 2015Facebook and Tinder are down. So this is what the apocalypse looks like.
— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) January 27, 2015.@narendramodi hi sir Facebook is down which makes it very difficult for me to troll you for a living, can you and Barack please fix this.
— Rega Jha (@RegaJha) January 27, 2015Facebook is slowly returning service to its users. Here's a photo of Facebook HQ taken just moments ago #Facebookdown pic.twitter.com/9oYDkikVDZ
— Austin Braun (@Braun23Austin) January 27, 2015FACEBOOK IS DOWN !!! OBAMA BROKE THE INTERNET !!!!
— Nobody (@Sychlops) January 27, 2015Please cancel your honeymoon because Facebook is down.
— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) January 27, 2015People are found shouting "awwwww", "mmmuah", "awsum" to each other on streets as the Facebook is down.
— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) January 27, 201570 people arrested for poking strangers in the street and forcing them to look at pictures while #facebookdown
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) January 27, 2015#facebook is down...college kids and teenagers are doing fine...senior citizens are figuring out new ways to spend their time!
— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) January 27, 2015Barely an hour after it was down, Facebook was up and running. People again took to Twitter to share this information.
Thank God #Facebook is back, the world can continue spinning now.
— Andre Borges (@AndreBorges28) January 27, 2015