Facebook appeared to be down for a short time for some users on Thursday.
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This screen showed when users attempted to access the site:
The issue occurred for around 30 minutes before being rectified.
Business Insider has contacted Facebook to find out what the problem was. We'll update this post once we hear back.
Even IsItDownRightNow.com was struggling with the news.
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Back in January, Facebook went down for an hour and people reportedly called 911 to report it. Facebook said that particular outage occurred after it introduced a change that affected its configuration systems.
Business Insider understands a similar problem caused the issues on Thursday.
As usual, people were tweeting in reaction to short period of a Facebook-free internet.
—Doug Wood (@misterdug) September 24, 2015
—Adam James Reeves (@AdamJReeves_) September 24, 2015
—Michael O'Donnell (@Michaeloptv) September 24, 2015
—M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) September 24, 2015
