Facebook suffers outage affecting status updates and "Likes"

FACEBOOK has suffered an outage which restricted people from posting status updates or \"Liking\" posts on the website.

Oveight, many users were seeing the following message when they try to update their status: \"There was a problem updating your status. Please try again in a few minutes.\"

The website Down Right Now said Facebook suffered a likely service disruption. The service appeared to be retuing to normal by 1.30am AEDT.

Unable to update their Facebook status, some took to Twitter instead.

Relax, everyone, Facebook isn't broken. It's just a new \"diary\" feature where you talk to yourself instead of everyone else. #FacebookIssues — Augie Ray (@augieray) October 21, 2013

Facebook's servers are working fine, the Inteet just has an allergy to LOLcats, baby photos and idiots. — HAL 9000 (@HAL9000_) October 21, 2013

\"Productivity Surges with Facebook Outage, Recession Over by Monday Afteoon, Say Experts\" — Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 21, 2013

Facebook down. Panic in the streets, people go around with their photos asking \"You like?\" #Facebook #facebookdown — Nir Kouris (@nirkouris) October 21, 2013