Facebook is back after global crash

New Delhi: People thronged Twitter after social media giant Facebook on Tuesday faced an outage in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and some parts of North America.

Facebook users got an error message: "Sorry, something went wrong and we`ll get it fixed as soon as we can."

Later, a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch in an emailed statement: "Earlier today, some Facebook users were unable to access Facebook briefly due to a technical issue. We have now fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience caused."

According to DownDetector.com, the outage, which also appears to be affecting Facebook`s mobile app and Messenger, also spread to parts of North America.

Many social media users took to Twitter to talk about the rare Facebook outage.