Facebook Crashed

Early Friday morning in the Philippines, users who accessed Facebook got an error message indicating that the site "may be temporarily down" or "may have moved permanently to a new address."

"Service Unavailable - DNS failure ... The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later," read a message that greeted other users who tried to log in.

Facebook appeared back to normal as of 6 a.m. Friday (Manila time).

In its Twitter account, Facebook acknowledged the site may be "slow or unavailable" for some people "because of site issues."

"We're working to fix this quickly," it said.

But at 6 a.m., it said it "resolved the tech issues that caused the site to be unavailable to some people" and that "everyone should now have access."

Social-digital media news site Mashable.com quoted Facebook as saying the issue is with a "third-party networking provider."

"We are experiencing an issue with a third party networking provider that is causing problems for some people trying to connect to Facebook," Mashable quoted Facebook as saying.

"We are in contact with this provider in order to explore what can be done to resolve the issue. In the meantime, we are working on deploying changes to bypass the affected connections," Facebook administrators added.