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Brief Facebook Outage Shuts Down Millions Of Users Around The World

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A Facebook outage Thursday morning shut down millions of users around the world.

No word yet as to the cause of the outage, which was first reported around 9:20 a.m. PT.

The outage was reported by Twitter users around the world using the hashtag #facebookdown.

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By 10:00 a.m., it appeared most users were back online. No word on what caused the outage.

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