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| Facebook suffers widespread outage | Facebook suffers widespread outage |
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| Social networking site Facebook suffered from a widespread outage on Tuesday, before coming back online. | Social networking site Facebook suffered from a widespread outage on Tuesday, before coming back online. |
| Millions of users were unable to access their accounts. | Millions of users were unable to access their accounts. |
| Users in some countries also had difficulties accessing photo-sharing app Instagram. | Users in some countries also had difficulties accessing photo-sharing app Instagram. |
| Facebook in the UK and Ireland said it was "aware that many people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram". | |
| "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible," a spokeswoman said. | |
| An Instagram spokesman posted on Twitter: "We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience." | An Instagram spokesman posted on Twitter: "We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience." |
| The sites appear to have been unavailable for about 40 minutes before coming back online. | |
| Dating app Tinder and chat services Aim and Hipchat were also reported to have been affected by problems over the period. | |
| A hacker group called 'Lizard Squad' claimed responsibility for the outage, according to the BBC's technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. | |
| The group claimed to have attacked the website for Malaysia Airlines on Monday. | |
| Some users took to Twitter to comment on the outage on Tuesday. | |
| "I hope you all took advantage of the 35 second Facebook outage to Like a person in real life. #Faceboogeddon," wrote media analyst Arthur Goldstuck. | |
| "While Facebook was down, I nailed a picture of my breakfast to a tree outside our house. Seven people have knocked to say they liked it," wrote Alistair Coleman. |