What is Wrong with My Facebook Account

Facebook went offline for lots of customers on Thursday, with the world's most popular social network informing users that "something failed".

When checking out Facebook.com, instead of seeing the regular homescreen or information feed, individuals were greeted with an empty display and a brief mistake message.

" Sorry, something went wrong. We're servicing it and also we'll get it repaired as soon as we can," the message reviews.

The outage started at around 5.30 pm BST yet, for many customers, showed up to have been dealt with around 20 mins after.

Down Detector, which collects reports of popular solutions being down, showed failures in the UK, Europe and also the US.

Naturally, people took to Twitter to have their say.

The web site decreased on Thursday mid-day as well as brief-ly appeared to work again for some customers.

A representative for Facebook has said they are looking into what took place.

At The Same Time, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook president, went to an occasion placed on by Oculus, the virtual reality headset company Facebook owns.