Users in Europe and the US lost the ability to access the world’s biggest social network for less than an hour on Tuesday evening, according to monitoring sites and Twitter updates.

Access was restored without an explanation from the California-based company, as is often the case when problems are resolved within minutes.

Partial Facebook outages occur on an almost monthly basis, and the previous widely-reported one was only three days ago, on August 13.

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