Facebook Status Updates Go Down In Unexpected Outage (FB)

UPDATE: Facebook appears to be coming back online; some users are reporting that they are able to post status updates again. The original story follows. Google GOOG 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 Facebook FB this morning. Unlike the recent Gmail issues, 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:

@philredcross Yes. Due to massive posting of selfie pictures with only one pose, Facebook will be under maintenance.

— Anna Fernandez (@JabbooLancers) October 21, 2013

Ah so its not just me then! “@USATODAY: Facebook users experiencing update errors http://t.co/xUImICmwpL” @cocoy @margauxsalcedo

— Jerome Gotangco (@JeromeGotangco) October 21, 2013

It's been more than an hour. Facebook users unable to update http://t.co/ds2wEsENqr

— Rappler (@rapplerdotcom) October 21, 2013

Facebook might be down today, or having problems, or something. I'm not sure because I fixed Facebook years ago: pic.twitter.com/GhxIC17XQ2

— Lee Hutchinson (@Lee_Ars) October 21, 2013

Looks like the cool kids will have to rely on Twitter to remind everyone how awesome and popular they are this morning. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this report. Louis Bedigian is the Senior Tech Analyst and Features Writer of Benzinga. You can reach him at louis(at)benzingapro(dot)com. Follow him @LouisBedigianBZ