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Facebook experienced ‘brief outage’ AGAIN, frustrated users claim

FACEBOOK experienced a brief outage for some users earlier today.

Problems were said to start in the UK around 9am and Facebook has since admitted that there was an issue.

Downdetector tweeted from its UK account: "User reports indicate Facebook is having problems since 9:24 AM BST."

It that most of the problems reported are to do with the website.

Hundreds of people reported issues with the platform.

A few have taken to other forms of social media to express concern.

A London based photographer : "Is Facebook down?"

To which another user simply replied: "Yes";.

A few people experiencing problems doesn't always mean the problem lies with Facebook or its servers.

There could be issues with the devices that people are trying to login to Facebook on or their internet connection.

However, this time, Facebook has admitted that it had a technical issue.

A Facebook spokesperson told us: "Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook.

"We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

The tech giant has experienced a few outages recently.

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The social media giant plans to  as part of a rebrand expected to be announced in the coming days.


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