LONDON, March 7 (UPI) -- Facebook says it was hit with a technical problem Monday that left many European users unable to connect with the social network for about two hours.
Users reported problems accessing Facebook.com in many countries, including Britain, the BBC reported.
In a statement, Facebook apologized for the outage and said the issue had been resolved.
"Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users in Europe," the company. "The issue has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Users in places outside of Europe including Pakistan and South Korea also posted reports of inability to connect with the service.
Although the problems were quickly corrected, some Web site owners who use the Facebook Connect service which allows people to log into external sites from their Facebook account said they were frustrated by the technical issues.
"Facebook two-hours down time this morning may make us rethink our login strategy," Tariq Krim, founder of cloud-based service Jolicloud and news aggregator Netvibes, said.
