Facebook Returns After Limited Outage

For the second time this month, Facebook is down for many users.

We started hearing reports of the outage on — where else? — Twitter, soon after 8 p.m Eastern. Last week, the social network suffered a 20-minute outage; it had several more lengthy blackouts earlier in the summer. Here’s the current Twitter chatter about the problem:

Interestingly, I’ve been able to access Facebook on desktop and mobile throughout. And judging from the comments on my Facebook post below, I’m not the only one unaffected:

It looks like Facebook is down. Many are reporting the outage on Twitter and other social networks.

Even downforeveryoneorjustme.com confirms that Facebook is down.

Facebook has been offline for about 5 minutes at this point. I expect it to go back online any second now.

Here is a screen shot of what happens when you try to access Facebook:

Facebook has sent us a statement, “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”

Update: At about 12:45 p.m. EDT, Facebook is back up for me.

Update #2: Facebook sent another update, “Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Facebook for a short time. We quickly investigated and have fully restored service for everyone. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.”

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