Facebook Inc. went down temporarily for some of its more than 2 billion global users after a technical error caused a glitch that blocked access to the social network.<\/p>\n
The issue – which appeared to be caused by a code change – affected a small number of users who were loading the site using a Chrome web browser from a desktop computer, Facebook said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier today some people may have had trouble accessing Facebook on the desktop version of Chrome for a short period of time,\u201d the company said. \u201cWe\u2019re back to 100% for everyone, and we\u2019re sorry for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Outages are rare for Facebook, which has become a digital front page for people to read news, share information and communicate with friends and family. Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, showed a concentration of outage reports in Europe and Australia.<\/p>\n
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