Facebook Back Up And Running After Temporary Outage

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MENLO PARK (CBS) – Facebook appears to be back up and running after temporarily going down for users worldwide Monday.

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

A Facebook spokeswoman told WBZ-TV "a routine test caused users to have trouble accessing or posting to all Facebook services including WhatsApp and Instagram."

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

Twitter, do your thing.
— Twitter (@Twitter) November 12, 2018

Facebook being down isn't really a big deal to me personally, but professionally it's making it really hard to do my job. pic.twitter.com/5b1nyDW9ox
— JMN (@JerricaMJ) November 12, 2018

Facebook is down. pic.twitter.com/oSTkXDWahz
— TinaC (@tinayoohoo) November 12, 2018

The social network was working again as of 1:30 p.m.

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