<p>Facebook Inc.'s website crashed briefly on Thursday, temporarily preventing computer and mobile phone users from reaching the site around the globe.<br /><br /></p>.<p>During the outage, Facebook users ranging from Australia to South Korea to India and Britain were greeted with a message saying "Sorry, something went wrong".<br /><br />The cause of the outage was not immediately known. Its exact duration could not be confirmed but service was restored in less than an hour.<br /><br />It prevented users from posting to the social networking site "for a brief period of time", a Facebook spokesman said.<br /><br />"We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent," he said. "We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused."</p>
<p>Facebook Inc.'s website crashed briefly on Thursday, temporarily preventing computer and mobile phone users from reaching the site around the globe.<br /><br /></p>.<p>During the outage, Facebook users ranging from Australia to South Korea to India and Britain were greeted with a message saying "Sorry, something went wrong".<br /><br />The cause of the outage was not immediately known. Its exact duration could not be confirmed but service was restored in less than an hour.<br /><br />It prevented users from posting to the social networking site "for a brief period of time", a Facebook spokesman said.<br /><br />"We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent," he said. "We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused."</p>