In the last few minutes the Facebook website has seemingly gone down worldwide for a large portion of it’s users. A quick search on Twitter shows thousands of tweets all stating that people are having issues accessing the large social network. With over 500 million members on facebook worldwide, downtime is to be expected on occasion. There has been no word from Facebook as to what is causing the problem as of yet.

Today also happens to be a big day for Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of Facebook, who will appear on the Oprah Winfrey show to announced that he is personally donating $100 million to the Newark Public Schools. I’m sure the last thing the team at Facebook wants is for their site to be down just as they air nationwide on the Oprah show.