Why Is Facebook Down? Twitter Users React To Social Media ‘Crash’

Facebook apparently crashed Wednesday for many users in the U.S., the U.K., Germany and other parts of the world, TechCrunch.com reported. Users swiftly took to Twitter to convey their dismay. It’s not the first time Facebook has experienced problems this summer. There were also outages in May, June and August.

For those who are upset over the outage, other Twitter followers feel your pain. Some of their comments have been posted below so everyone can commiserate together.

100 social media editors stumble out into the afternoon haze, gasping, asking what year is it.
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) September 3, 2014

Have a theory that when Facebook is down, all the people loitering on Facebook head to posts about FB being down.
— Alexia Tsotsis (@alexia) September 3, 2014

Facebook website says "Sorry, something went wrong." Which is how I feel reading statuses of people I went to high school with
— Eliza Bayne (@ElizaBayne) September 3, 2014

Facebook is down and oh my god, what if my exes wanted to say something about me???
— Josh Visser (@joshvisser) September 3, 2014

Facebook is down. So once again, Twitter turns into the only bar that's open and it fills up with lots of people who shouldn't be here.
— RandyBaumann WDVE (@DVERandy) September 3, 2014