Facebook Live Again After Brief Outage

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Facebook appears to be back after is was down for users worldwide Monday morning.

According to downdetector.com, a spike in reports of Facebook being down just before 1 p.m. EST.

By 1:36 p.m., the website was back up.

The outage has prompted an outpouring of posts on Twitter about the issue:

Everyone... Stop Everything You're Doing! FACEBOOK IS DOWN! #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/v22zkjef4o
— Kelly Bazzle (@KellyBazzle) November 12, 2018

When Facebook is down and you have to go back to work pic.twitter.com/2ZRRNoEOgz
— FacebookDown (@UghFacebookDown) November 12, 2018

The world just got a lot more productive. #facebookdown
— Lanny Mixon (@LannyMixon) November 12, 2018

Facebook has not said what caused the outage.

This story is developing.

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