Facebook Down Right Now: Outage for Site on Wednesday

Facebook apparently was down for many on Wednesday.

Several Epoch Times staff members tried to access the site but could not at about 3:45 p.m. ET.

UPDATE: The website appears to be back up as of 3:58 p.m. ET.

On Twitter, a large number of people said they could not access the website.

The website Down For Everyone or Just Me said the site is down.

“Facebook seems to be down completely. I therefore report this fact on the Twitter. :)” one person wrote on Twitter.

Added another: “Facebook is down repeat #facebook is down #dontpanic do some #feldenkrais deep breathing.”

Another added: “The last time #Facebook was down, social referral traffic dropped 8.5 percent.”

Story is developing…

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