The Facebook Went Down

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

BREAKING: Facebook suffers widespread outage affecting users in United States, Asia
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 27, 2015

MORE: Facebook, Instagram outage affecting users in U.S., Asia, Australia: http://t.co/GAHuxLOaqB
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 27, 2015

BREAKING: Facebook's Instagram service says it is aware of outage and is working on a fix.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 27, 2015

But finally, after what must have been the longest 40 minutes in some folks lives:

BREAKING: After roughly 40-minute outage, Facebook again accessible in U.S., Asia, other regions.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 27, 2015

Facebook has about 1.35 billion active users and Instagram has approximately 300 million.