Facebook down - Social networking site not working for users across the world

FACEBOOK DOWN - UPDATE ONE: The issues affecting Facebook today appear to have been resolved.

The number of reports of Facebook down on Down Detector has plummeted from tens of thousands to a few hundred.

While on social networking sites users have reported seeing Facebook working for them once again.

Speaking to Express.co.uk, a Facebook spokesperson said: “Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble connecting to Facebook and it has since been resolved.”

ORIGINAL: Facebook is down with tens of thousands of users reporting the social networking giant’s site as not working, with the news feed crashing and not loading among problems reported.

Independent outage monitor Down Detector has received a surge in reports of Facebook down with the majority of the issues being reported in the UK, US and Europe.

Some 43 per cent of affected users are experiencing a total blackout while 31 per cent are having login issues.

Express.co.uk has contacted Facebook about the reported issues and asked when services are likely to return to normal.

On rival social networking Twitter users have flocked to report issues with Facebook.