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Is Facebook Down Today - Many of Facebook's more than 550 million members found they could no longer log on to the social networking website for approximately 30 minutes earlier today starting at about 4:15 p.m. ET due to a leak of internal prototypes to the public, which caused the company to take the site down for a short time. The outage occurred just as Facebook began debuting several new features, including redesigned brand pages, a new photo section and the ability to go back and forth between different accounts without having to log in and out, reports Mashable. Numerous Facebook users discovered only a blank white screen when they tried to visit the website. Is Facebook Down Today CenterNetworks reports that Like buttons were not loading. Currently, Facebook is up and running with the following status message from developers: "We are currently investigating sitewide issues that will affect Facebook Platform. We apologize for any inconvenience and will post ...