Facebook users in South America have access troubles

For several hours Saturday, Facebook users in Latin America have been having difficulty accessing the social networking site, a tech site reported.   The Next Web cited posts by many users of micro-blogging service Twitter on the outage, many of them from across the Latin American region.   It said these included Colombia, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Uruguay.   "While this is not a full outage – users still manage to access Facebook through its mobile version and the problem is only intermittent – it’s still a fairly serious downtime for such a large platform," The Next Web said.   Crowd-powered service monitoring site DownRightNow indicated the disruptions started as early as 5 a.m. (Manila time), but became widespread before noon.   But The Next Web also noted there had not been any recent status updates or mentions of this problem on Facebook’s official platform page.   "And what makes this all rather amusing is that Mark Zuckerberg himself is reportedly holidaying in Latin America at the time we write," it said. — ELR, GMA News