What happened to Facebook? Massive sign-up kicks users off social media platform

The internet was amazed at the mysterious interruption of the website as users reported that their timelines were frozen and forced to sign up again.

According to downdetector.com, a website and application monitoring service, it started around 9:30 p.m.

By 1 a.m. Saturday, it appears the issue has been resolved.

“We are investigating reports that some people are currently required to sign in again to gain access to their Facebook accounts,” the company said in a statement. “We believe it was due to a configuration change and we are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible.”

The mass login was quickly followed up with memes from users, as well as some conspiracy theories.

In an irony (or genius, depending on your perspective), Facebook posted a follow-up note about the outage on Twitter.