“Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else: we don’t crash. Ever.”

That line was uttered by the film version of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2010’s acclaimed The Social Network. But while the dialogue was probably entirely fictitious and tailored to drive the dramatic tension of a Hollywood film, there was definitely an element of truth there as well. Part of Facebook’s charm is its reliability.

In the film, Zuckerberg, played by Jessie Eisenberg, went on to explain that “if those servers are down for even a day, our reputation is irreversibly destroyed.” Again, the line was hyperbole, but Facebook is undoubtedly hoping users are not quite as fickle as the filmic Zuckerberg worried, after a Thursday crash briefly left the site inaccessible to countless people around the world.

According to a report from Reuters, one of Facebook’s webpages, FB.O, went down briefly on Thursday, causing outages for Facebook users far and wide. From Great Britain to Australia, from South Korea to India, users were given a “Sorry, something went wrong message” when trying to login to Facebook. Both mobile and desktop versions of the site were impacted by the error.

Facebook quickly went to work fixing the problem, and a spokesman was apologizing for the inconvenience and assuring users that the site was “back to 100 percent” by the end of the day. Precisely why Facebook went down was not revealed in the company’s statement, but since the site was evidently back up and running in less than an hour, we can probably rest assured knowing that Facebook’s reputation has not been “irreversibly destroyed” as Hollywood Zuckerberg once predicted.