The popular social networking service Facebook went out of commission today thursday, a problem that affected users worldwide and set
off a firestorm on other social media platforms such as Twitter.
Users who tried to log into Facebook received an error page that simply
said, "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed
as soon as we can," with a link to go back to the previous page.
The Guardian reported that the service "suffered an outage affecting all
traffic from the internet and apps to the social network." And the tech blog
Gizmodo reported that Facebook's developer platform was also out of
service.
Traffic to the site Downrightnow overloaded that service as well.
Service returned at about 4.30pm locally, after an outage of about 20
minutes.
Facebook has not commented on the cause of the outage, but it
did release the following statement:
"Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from
posting to Facebook for a brief period of time.
We resolved the issue
quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience
this may have caused."
Facebook's last substantial outage came in 2010, when it went down for
more than 2 hours thanks to a server error that Facebook could only fix by
turning off its site to reduce traffic loads.
While they could not access the site on Thursday, users worldwide got the
chance to exercise their collective wits poking fun at the outage on the
microblogging site Twitter.
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