Facebook Status Updates Go Down In Unexpected Outage (FB)

outages are commonplace, but it's not everyday that consumers are hampered by an inability to post status updates. But that is just what happened to

this morning. Unlike the recent

, this problem seems to be affecting every Facebook user. In a nutshell, this means that one billion people cannot post status updates to their timeline. Twitter, the world's second-largest social network, is overwhelmed with tweets on the issue:

Looks like the cool kids will have to rely on Twitter to remind everyone how awesome and popular they are this morning. Disclosure: