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For a brief moment of bliss, Facebook was down

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Facebook experienced an apparent widespread outage.
Facebook experienced an apparent widespread outage.

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Try going to Facebook.com on your browser, and you’ll probably see nothing this morning. 

Just after 9 a.m. PT, users started posting on Twitter about the social media site not loading. For many users the site was just a blank white page.

Facebook was way down -- if only briefly.

Facebook was way down — if only briefly.

The Facebook mobile app also seemed to down as well this morning.

DownDetector showed a surge of outage reports and its outage map included North and South America, Europe, parts of Asia and the Middle East.

The posts (and jokes) about the widespread outage started coming in fast.

We reached out to Facebook to find out what was going on and will update this story once they respond.

This story is developing…

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