Facebook News Update 2014: Earlier this month, Facebook visitors suffer interruption August 1. ZDnet reported that the social network site had a brief outage in the early afternoon across both its web and mobile channels. Users were sharply turned away starting around 9AM PT/12PM ET.

According to Phys Org, Facebook users took to Twitter to post comments, many using the hashtag #facebookdown.

"Facebook is Down?! Oh God! Now How the Hell Am I Going to Find Out How My Friends Feel About Facebook Being Down?!" one user tweeted.

Another wrote: "Facebook going down for 15 minutes is proof that today's generation would've survived approximately 8 seconds in the 80s."

A Twitter user with the handle @TheTweetofGod wrote, "#facebookdown. Please remain calm and do not attempt to interact with human beings."

Some panicked users even called police for help, according to Twitter posts by a sergeant from the Los Angeles county Sheriff's Department.

Reuters reported that the outage affected multiple countries such as the United States, Chile and India.

Users who attempted to access Facebook were not led to their usual login page, but to an error message. The message that appeared was "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

Reportedly, Facebook Inc appeared to come back online within about half an hour and said that the service to the world's largest online social network was fully restored already.

"Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Facebook for a short time. We quickly investigated and have fully restored service for everyone. We're sorry for the inconvenience," Facebook said in an emailed statement dated August 1.

This is the second time that Facebook experienced outage within 2 months. According to Wall Street Pit, the site experienced a serious server crash on June 19 that lasted 30 minutes. Forbes reported the brief blackout cost the social network $500,000 in lost ad revenue.