Zuckerberg among Facebook users declared 'dead' by mistake

San Francisco

FACEBOOK accidentally declared its founder Mark Zuckerberg and many other users dead on Friday, acknowledging after fixing the problem that it had committed a "terrible error".

"For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialised profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts," a Facebook spokesperson told AFP. "This was a terrible error that we have now fixed."

Media reports indicated that some two million errant memorials were posted on profile pages.

Even Facebook co-founder and chief executive Zuckerberg was memorialised in a message at his profile page expressing hope that people who loved him would take comfort in posts people shared …