Facebook goes down in a 15-minute meltdown

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KUALA LUMPUR: The world’s largest social media network Facebook faced its longest service disruption when a major outage hit both its website and smartphone and tablet Apps.

During the outage, users entering the facebook.com URL were directed to a page which reads, “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”

According to The Guardian, this is the first time Facebook has suffered a widespread outage causing many users to joke about the situation on other social media platforms like Twitter.

#FacebookDown hashtag is gaining in popularity among Twitter users:

Employers already noticing huge increase in employee productivity. #facebookdown
— Michael D. Higgins (@IrishPresident) June 19, 2014

I felt like I was reporting on a worldwide alien attack there for a while. #facebookdown
— Amir Mizroch (@Amirmizroch) June 19, 2014

Facebook is back up again. In the longest downtime in recent history. Twenty whole minutes. The world can breathe again. #FacebookDown
— mrbrown (@mrbrown) June 19, 2014

Panic over - no need to actually speak to your friends @facebook appears to be working again. #Facebook #facebookdown
— ben turner (@BreakyWakey_Ben) June 19, 2014

I posted that Facebook is down on Google+ but no one is there to see it. #facebookdown
— Jason Goh (@smashpOp) June 19, 2014

Well-played, #KITKAT, well-played :) #socialmedia #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/i8uyRN1ObR
— Jason Cruz (@jsncruz) June 19, 2014

Yes, @facebook is down. Write your status updates on the nearest wall if you must, but no one panic and go back to Myspace! #facebookdown
— Kitta (@Kitta) June 19, 2014

Okay, it's been about four minutes now and I can't handle it anymore. #facebookdown
— Thom Rylance (@thomrylance) June 19, 2014

The outage lasted for approximately 15 minutes and the site has been restored at approximately 4.20pm.