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EMEA region experiences massive Facebook outage
What do you do when the world’s largest social network goes down? Facebook users from all over the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region found themselves confronting that question today.
Anyone trying to access the Facebook from their desktop was met with error messages saying their browser was unable to locate the site.
People took to Twitter to confirm that it was down:
Yes folks, it seems Facebook in the UK is down. Not sure why, will let you know if we find out any more!
— Bournemouthecho (@Bournemouthecho) March 7, 2012
Looks like Facebook is proper down for lots of people! Ah well, ho hum lol
— Artful (@ThisIsArtful) March 7, 2012
Facebook appears to be dead in Moscow
— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) March 7, 2012
Facebook mobile version is still working even though Facebook “proper” seems to be down everywere. m.facebook.com/home.php?_rdr
— Fiona J Reay (@foxi_fi) March 7, 2012
Aha! Facebook mobile works for me.
— Melissa (@Merlot_Girl) March 7, 2012
Downrightnow — a website that provides statuses for a number of the most prominent locations on the web — meanwhile called the issue a “likely service disruption”.
The EMEA region appeared to be the only one affected, with users reporting from India, the USA, and Australia reporting that the social network was still working for them.
The outage trended globally on Twitter:
The issue appears to have since been resolved.
