Social network crashes across all platforms

Facebook, the world's second most popular site and social media giant, is unusable to everyone across the world and on every platform.

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Users of the application would be experiencing difficulties on every platform, ranging from desktop, mobile, Android and iOS versions.

Facebook's error page said that the site was "working on it" and would "get it fixed as soon as we can", though that message appears to be automated.

"Facebook is down mayday mayday" — Andrea Garcia-Vargas (@AGVwrites)

For some users, the site seemed not to be appearing at all, for others, Facebook's now slightly old-style error page was brought up when trying to access the site.

Facebook's own "Platform Status" page, which is used to communicate when the site is broken, why and when it will be fixed, also seemed to have been hit by the problem and was inaccessible.

The network's last major outage was earlier in January, during a problem that was claimed by hacking groups but appeared actually to be due to an error by Facebook.

The social media network that only recently revealed that it would be adding a 'dislike' button to its collection, now seems to have bigger problems as their error page looks stale.

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