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June 1, 2012 04:28 am GMT

Is Facebook Down? Yes It Was For Some. Anonymous Laughs At Two-Hour Outage

screen-shot-2010-09-23-at-2-02-36-pm"Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER!" - 'Mark Zuckerberg', The Social Network. Not quite. Facebook has been offline or slow to load for some users around the world for over two hours. Reports started flooding in to Twitter at roughly 4:26pm PST on 5/31/2012 with many users quipping that "Facebook is down. Just like its stock price."Despite some who lost service regaining it temporarily, two hours inDownForEveryoneOrJustMe confirms the outage continued for portions of Facebook's 900 million users, though others had no trouble logging on.Update 8am PST 6/1/2012: Facebook refused to cite a cause but Anonymous may be responsible. The shadowy group known for taking down websites tweeted, "Looks like good old FaceBook is having packet problems#FuckFaceBook|#OpFaceBook|#FuckYourIPO", then "Oh yeah RIP Facebook a new sound of tango down bitches."

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