THE world’s popular social networking site of Facebook went down laast night across the world, leaving users unable to log in.

Users hit Twitter to express their angst about Facebook being down, after they got this error message from Facebook.

The outage hit its desktop website, smartphone and tablet apps.

The site, which boasts 1.28 billion monthly users, has returned after being unavailable to users for 20 minutes to under an hour.

media_camera The error message ... as Facebook went down today worldwide.

Those on Twitter started the hashtag #facebookdown as they continued to live without Facebook for the first time in their life.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg has been widely quoted as saying Facebook would never crash.

Facebook has apologised for the inconvenience in a statement.

“We experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time,” the company said.

“We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 per cent.”

A Facebook spokesman would not specify how many users were affected or elaborate on what caused the problem.

Chill everyone it's back. Shall we all get Tshirts made saying "I survived the Facebook apocalypse" #facebookdown — Jason Webster (@jasonwebster1) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Chill everyone it's back. Shall we all get Tshirts made saying "I survived the Facebook apocalypse" #facebookdown— Jason Webster (@jasonwebster1) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Chill everyone it's back. Shall we all get Tshirts made saying "I survived the Facebook apocalypse" #facebookdown— Jason Webster (@jasonwebster1) June 19, 2014

Facebook is now closed, thanks for all your submissions. We'll announce winners shortly. — David Darnes (@DavidDarnes) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Facebook is now closed, thanks for all your submissions. We'll announce winners shortly.— David Darnes (@DavidDarnes) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Facebook is now closed, thanks for all your submissions. We'll announce winners shortly.— David Darnes (@DavidDarnes) June 19, 2014

And #Facebook is down. Are we looking at another trend on Twitter?! #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/iv7AwCPK5I — HT City (@htcity) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: And #Facebook is down. Are we looking at another trend on Twitter?! #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/iv7AwCPK5I— HT City (@htcity) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: And #Facebook is down. Are we looking at another trend on Twitter?! #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/iv7AwCPK5I— HT City (@htcity) June 19, 2014

นานๆ จะเจอหน้า facebook เข้าไม่ได้ซะที save รูปเก็บไว้ซะหน่อย อิอิอิ pic.twitter.com/iYQFFip5iV — กึ่งยิงกึ่งผ่าน (@overconda) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: นานๆ จะเจอหน้า facebook เข้าไม่ได้ซะที save รูปเก็บไว้ซะหน่อย อิอิอิ pic.twitter.com/iYQFFip5iV— กึ่งยิงกึ่งผ่าน (@overconda) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: นานๆ จะเจอหน้า facebook เข้าไม่ได้ซะที save รูปเก็บไว้ซะหน่อย อิอิอิ pic.twitter.com/iYQFFip5iV— กึ่งยิงกึ่งผ่าน (@overconda) June 19, 2014

Facebook? Where'd you go, boo? — Junkee (@junkeedotcom) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Facebook? Where'd you go, boo?— Junkee (@junkeedotcom) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Facebook? Where'd you go, boo?— Junkee (@junkeedotcom) June 19, 2014

So #Facebook is down? What happened to those powerful servers and unlimited bandwidth? — Giles Muhame (@Gilespies) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: So #Facebook is down? What happened to those powerful servers and unlimited bandwidth?— Giles Muhame (@Gilespies) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: So #Facebook is down? What happened to those powerful servers and unlimited bandwidth?— Giles Muhame (@Gilespies) June 19, 2014

Facebook down worldwide! Ladies & Gents we have two choices: 1. Panic, its the end of the world. 2 Don't panic & enjoy Twitter, SMS etc. — Craig Burrows, MBE (@craigburrows) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Facebook down worldwide! Ladies & Gents we have two choices: 1. Panic, its the end of the world. 2 Don't panic & enjoy Twitter, SMS etc.— Craig Burrows, MBE (@craigburrows) June 19, 2014 Sub-type: comment CAPTION: Facebook down worldwide! Ladies & Gents we have two choices: 1. Panic, its the end of the world. 2 Don't panic & enjoy Twitter, SMS etc.— Craig Burrows, MBE (@craigburrows) June 19, 2014

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