Facebook apologises for outage

FACEBOOK has apologised after its website went down, attributing the outage to an internal issue.

"Earlier today, an internal issue in our web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," a Facebook spokesman told AAP.

"We resolved the issue quickly, and should now be back to 100 per cent. We apologise for any inconvenience."

The popular social networking site, which has about 12 million Australian users and claims about 1.1 billion worldwide, began experiencing problems about 11am (AEST) on Wednesday.

Millions of users, including Australians, were unable to log on for about 20 minutes, with most receiving an error message on the site's launch page.

Some took to rival networking site Twitter to giggle at the predicament.

"So I'm trying to look at a hot babe's Facebook page - doesn't work 3 tries - turns out the whole website was down," one joker sniggered into his keyboard.

Others appeared genuinely panicked at the prospect of not being able to upload pictures of their breakfast and poke their mates.

"Holy ******* **** Facebook is down worldwide," another tweeted.

Facebook did not elaborate on the nature of its internal issue.

Messages posted online, purportedly linked to the hacking collective Anonymous, claimed responsibility for attacking the site.

But AAP could not verify the claim and it would appear an unlikely scenario.

If it was attacked, and it's a big 'if', one possible motive could be the social network recently becoming embroiled in the US National Security Administration PRISM data-mining scandal.

Former CIA whistle-blower Edward Snowden blew the lid on the PRISM data collection system, allegedly involving a number of tech firms handing user data to US intelligence agencies.

On June 14 the company published a transparency report revealing it received between 9000 and 10,000 user-data requests from US government entities.

Facebook also announced on Wednesday that it has passed a major milestone in its development, with more than one million advertisers now using the site.

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