Facebook Returns After Limited Outage

For the second time this month, Facebook is down for many users.

We started hearing reports of the outage on — where else? — Twitter, soon after 8 p.m Eastern. Last week, the social network suffered a 20-minute outage; it had several more lengthy blackouts earlier in the summer. Here’s the current Twitter chatter about the problem:

Tweets about “FacebookDown”

Interestingly, I’ve been able to access Facebook on desktop and mobile throughout. And judging from the comments on my Facebook post below, I’m not the only one unaffected:

Postscript: The outage, which appeared to mostly effect the Eastern United States, seems to have been resolved.

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