Facebook still down for some

18 hrs.

Suzanne Choney

Some Facebook users were still having trouble accessing the social network Friday?morning, with the site either not loading or loading slowly.?

On Thursday night, when users experienced loading issues for at least two hours, hacking group Anonymous commented via its Twitter account about the slowdown. It's not clear from the posts whether the hacktivists had anything to do with the problems or were just celebrating them.

"Looks like good old Facebook is having packet problems" and "Oh yeah ... RIP Facebook a new sound of tango down, b------," were among the tweets posted by @YourAnonNews on Twitter.

While a Facebook spokesperson would not address the Anonymous posts on Thursday night, he gave msnbc.com the following statement:?

"Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site.?The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access?to Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience."

At approximately 9 a.m. ET Friday morning,? the website?DownForEveryoneOrJustMe?showed that Facebook continued to suffer intermittent outages for some of the social network's nearly 1 billion users. Msnbc.com has again contacted Facebook for an update and will update this story when we hear back.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said the company is not sure what's behind the problems, "but I would note that in the past Facebook downtime or inaccessibility have not been for malicious reasons.

"My guess is that it's more likely that there were more down-to-earth internal reasons for the downtime rather than an attack," he told msnbc.com.

Apica,?a website?load testing and performance monitoring provider, confirmed Facebook's "performance issues, and?said Friday that the company checks?Facebook?s homepage "every 5 minutes for uptime and 30 minutes for response time from its East Coast Cloud Monitoring locations."?

The firm "recorded high response times and sporadic unavailability between the hours of 5:28 p.m. and 7:29 p.m. PST (Thursday), and between midnight and 3 a.m. PST (Friday). The site was unavailable at Apica?s checks at 5:28 p.m., 5:33 p.m., 7:19 p.m., and 7:29 p.m. (all times PST), and again at 6:47 a.m. PST. Apica?s monitoring also shows high spikes in response times???upwards of 30 seconds at some checks and even as high as 74 seconds???during these periods."

On Thursday night, many took to Twitter to complain and make jokes about Facebook connection problems. ?"RIP Facebook" was among the top 10 trending topics in the U.S. and worldwide.

"Yelling at my computer because my facebook won't work ... only to come on Twitter and see #RIP Facebook trending #explained," said Caitlyn Trelford on Twitter.?

Members of Anonymous ? whose?key leaders have been arrested?and charged in recent months ? are?angry?about this week's decision by Britain's Supreme Court?backing the?extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden?where he is accused of sex crimes.

Earlier Thursday, the group claimed credit for a denial-of-service attack on the American Nazi Party, whose website was back up Thursday evening.

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