Facebook goes down, further signs of apocalypse yet to materialise [Updated]

That’s it folks, we can all pack up and leave the internet now. Facebook is down. Anyone trying to access the world’s largest social network was today greeted with the following message:

Facebook is down

The outage, which appears to be global, trended on Twitter although it was beaten out by the likes of #2YearsOfBelieveAlbum, #IndonesiaHEBATselalutersenyum and #YouAintFromMemphis. It’s unclear why that’s happened, but the reaction on the 140-character-or-less social network was, for the most part, typically dry and sardonic.

Marketing teams were also quick to capitalise on the error:

Interestingly, the error appears to also have affected Instagram users, suggesting that something has gone pretty catastrophically wrong.

To date there have been no signs of four scary dudes on horseback or multi-headed serpent monsters, but we will be the first to update you if this really is the beginning of the apocalypse.

Update: it’s back up. You can stop stockpiling canned goods.

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