FACEBOOK

FACEBOOK HANG OVER FOR A WHILE

Recently we have seen Twitter hang over for a moment on JAN 1st 2012 now it happened in Facebook.

Facebook, the social networking website that has around 850 million users worldwide, on Wednesday went down in several countries, mainly European, for around two hours.

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"Today, we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users in Europe," Facebook said in a statement. "The issue has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologise for any inconvenience."

The outage affected facebook.com as well as its apps for mobile phones and tablets. As a result, #facebookdown was the top trending hashtag in France on microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday.

The outage could be a result of a disconnect with Facebook's servers holding users' personal data.