Facebook knocked-out by two-hour blackout

The popular social netowrking site, Facebook, face a technical glitch and its services were not available for about two hours.

Facebook users who were unable to access the site complained on other sites such as Twitter. Users across Middle East, Africa and Europe were affected due to the temporary glitch.

Facebook has around 850 million users worldwide.

"Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users in Europe," Facebook said in a statement.
 
"The issue has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologise for any inconvenience."

The statement did not explain what had caused the 'outage'. CERT.Be, a Belgian government agency, claimed that the outage was due to a DDoS hacker attack, but this has not been confirmed, according to Daily Mail.

The outage affected facebook.com as well as its apps for mobile phones and tablets.

 As a result, 'facebookdown' was the top trending hashtag in France on microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday.

The outage could be a result of a disconnect with Facebook's servers holding users' personal data.

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