Edinburgh, Scotland -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/21/2012 -- Facebook was unavailable for a number of users mostly across Europe on Wednesday due to "technical difficulties". The social network's smartphone and tablet apps were also affected, users on Twitter reported problems accessing Facebook in many countries, including the UK, for about two hours. A spokesperson for facebook said "Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users in Europe," the company said in a statement”

This has been a constant problem on facebook which is upsetting the many people, who hold facebook accounts, Twitter newsfeed went into over drive on Wednesday with people from all over Europe reporting the problem. A source for Direct Liaisons said “Facebook is a big company of course it will face technical problems, but they also need to learn from them and set up ways to help serve the people when these problems arise”

The site has about 850 million users worldwide and many took to twitter to share information about the down time, with #facebook down quickly becoming a trending topic on the microblogging site. More isolated accounts of inaccessibility were posted by users in further afield places such as Pakistan and South Korea. Most took a humorous view, with users tweeting such things as “Facebook is #down; expect a surge in productivity in offices everywhere today." A source from Direct Liaisons said “Twitter had a field day on Wednesday with many followers sharing their reaction to the latest technical problem to hit facebook, Most of the tweets were in the humorous side however others questioned the technical difficulties, ‘Has this been one problem too many’”

Launched in February 2004, last month Facebook announced plans to float on the stock market. It seeks to raise $5bn (£3.16bn) from the move, making it the biggest sale of shares by an internet company, but this latest problem may have many rethinking if this is the way to go, "Facebook two hours down time this morning may make us rethink our login strategy," remarked Tariq Krim, founder of cloud-based service Jolicloud and news aggregator Netvibes.”

Facebook has been consistently popular since its launch in 04 but in the last few years the problems that have plagued facebook have raised a lot of questions. A spokesperson for Direct Liaisons has said “Has Facebook lost its peak? Should the company just cut their losses and go out on a high” These are just some of the many questions that have been put into a survey and the results would be a surprise to many, Will facebook let this latest glitch pass or will another glitch be the downfall of this powerful company.”

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