Facebook goes down: Twitter erupts

Facebook stopped working this evening prompting an outpouring of grief across other social media outlets.

Users were left simply with the message ‘Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.’

The first problems were reported online just after 5pm.

Twitter was the main platform to erupt following the outage on the world’s most popular social networking site.

Oh, no! #facebookdown ! What are we going to do? Oh, look there's a great, big world out there.

— Chris Alexander (@TiggerPlus2) August 1, 2014

BREAKING: Twitter will crash from all the people tweeting about Facebook being down. #facebookdown #myspacewasneverdown

— NW Music Scene (@NW_Music_Scene) August 1, 2014

Just went to @twitter to find out if @facebook was down. Yo, it's down. #facebookdown

— Kranti Prakash Sai (@saikranti) August 1, 2014

Oh Facebook Is Down? Let's Tweet About It! pic.twitter.com/GGJqd5J8qc

— AJ Ghergich (@SEO) August 1, 2014