Facebook has issued an apology for its outage in the morning of Aug. 1, Friday.
"Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Facebook for a short time. We quickly investigated and have fully restored service for everyone. We're sorry for the inconvenience," the social networking site stated in a statement, The Daily Beast reported.
It was at 12:01 p.m. when Facebook acknowledged the error through its status page stating, "Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We'll update shortly."
When Facebook users attempted to log in during the outage, they were seeing an error message, which read, "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."
After more than half an hour of outage, Facebook was back online at around12:35 p.m., My Fox 8 has learned.
While the Facebook outage apparently lasted for approximately 35 minutes only, as also reported by Mashable, Google Facts claimed it lasted even longer than that.
"Yesterday, Facebook was down 45 minutes globally and lost about more than $1,000,000 in advertising revenue. $FB," Google Facts tweeted as #facebookdown went trending.
While Facebook was down, netizens took to Twitter to express their reactions about it including Los Angeles County Sergeant Burton Brink.
"#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!" Brink tweeted.
"Yes we got calls #facebookdown That is why I sent out my previous msg to prevent them. Unk number received on 911 or reg number TY #LASD," he also wrote.
Several Twitter users reacted to Brink's tweets about Facebook outage.
"@LASDBrink I do not believe. I thought this only happened in Brazil," rblvet wrote.
Another user Jennifer also commented, "@LASDBrink There should be a fine for calling 911 unnecessarily."