Facebook is down - everyone is freaking out and tweeting it #facebookdown

If your Facebook page doesn't appear to be working — it's probably not just you.

People all across the globe realised on Monday night that the social media platform was down. People in Asia were waking up to it on a Tuesday morning.

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Roberto Onggo Kusumo @RobertoOK96

Trying to login to facebook, and got this error again?
What's wrong with this @facebook #facebookdown

9:16 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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And by the looks of it on Twitter, they were pretty freaked out about it.

Naturally, #facebookdown started trending.

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Bruce Krochman @bkrochman

OMG!!! #facebook is down and I can't even get to Facebook to tell all my facebook friends that facebook is down!!

9:47 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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Zonily @kuyazee

Facebook is down #facebookdown @facebook#facebookisdown

9:48 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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Chris Hayward @ellji

holy crap, facebook's down! everyone start rioting and looting, the end of the world is here!

9:32 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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Caroline Williams @caroline_nz

#FacebookDown Do I have to talk to people in real life now?! #panic

9:29 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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David Cairns @DaveIRCairns

#Facebook is down! Repent! REPENT!!!

9:32 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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den🍍 @dennnreyes

Facebook employees right now.#facebookdown

9:47 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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Even officials got in on the action.

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NSW Police 

✔@nswpolice

We don't mean to alarm you but FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!! How will we know what you ate for lunch!?

9:28 AM - 9 May 2017

 
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According to Down Detector, Facebook appears to on the fritz in the Asia-Pacific region and on the West Coast of the U.S., spreading down to Mexico.