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Facebook went down this morning in an apparent worldwide outage, throwing social media users into a panic and boosting the use of rival site Twitter.
With no Facebook on which to share thoughts for — what, about 23 minutes? — Twitter was abuzz with various quips and laments about the temporary freeze-out.
“There go the five most productive minutes of my life,” Simone Sebastian tweeted when the service came back online just now.
Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, was down, too.
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What did you do for those 25-or-so minutes — besides refreshing your browser and tweeting?
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