Facebook suffers outage, drone crashes into White House, Microsoft announces financials, Nest replaces Dropcams, Funny or Die thinks weather is funny, and the BMW ad celebrating ignorance. Facebook was Down, Albeit Briefly Things to do when Facebook is down: 1. Tweet that Facebook is down. #facebookdown — Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) January 27, 2015 Facebook suffered an outage of around 40 minutes on Monday night (Jan 26), and the Internet immediately lost its head.