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Facebook briefly unfriends East Coast

Facebook, the go-to website and app for millions, was offline for about 45 minutes Thursday afternoon.

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Facebook, the go-to website and app for millions, was offline for about 45 minutes Thursday afternoon.

The bulk of the outages were concentrated in the northeastern United States and western Europe, according to downdetector.com, which monitors up time of major apps and websites.
A map generated by downdetector.com showed Facebook offiline primarily in the northeast US and western Europe

Reports began to trickle in and Facebook posted an error message at about 12:20 p.m. By 1 p.m., users were back to sharing and liking.

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