Facebook access restored after brief outage

The Facebook Inc. website is displayed on an Apple Inc. Macbook Air laptop in an arranged photograph taken in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Facebook shares plunged 19 percent Thursday after second-quarter sales and user growth missed Wall Street estimates. , Bloomberg

Zoya Khan, Bloomberg News

Nov 12, 2018

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Facebook Inc.’s website went down temporarily for some users on Monday, showing an error message.

Users reported issues with connectivity in posts across other networks including Twitter

“Earlier today, a routine test caused users to have trouble accessing or posting to all Facebook services including WhatsApp and Instagram. We quickly investigated and restored access for everyone. We’re sorry for the inconvenience," a Facebook spokesperson told BNN Bloomberg.

The company's shares were broadly unchanged on the news amid a rout in U.S. tech stocks, trading down 2.2 per cent.