1. Facebook endures hours-long outage in the US – CNET
Notification that some users are getting when trying to access Facebook.
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Screenshot by Zack Whittaker/CNET)
Many Facebook users in the U.S. are apparently having a hard time getting onto the social
network.
Twitter is abuzz with user comments that Facebook isn’t working for them. And, the
site downforeveryoneorjustme.com is also reporting the social network is down. According to
The Next Web, users from Texas to New York have complained of intermittent access. Many
users have not been affected by the outage, however.
While the site is down for many people, mobile notifications seem to be working, as is the
mobile site m.facebook.com.
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2. Facebook has had outages here and there over the last few years. In December, the social
network suffered a DNS issue that caused some people temporarily being unable to reach the
site. And in October, the company inadvertently caused many users across Europe to be
knocked off the site after problems with traffic optimization tests.
It’s unclear what exactly is causing the outage now. Web site monitoring
service downrightnow.com is currently reporting Facebook’s status as “Likely Service
Disruption,” and at the time of this writing it suggests that the site has had intermittent access
for the last three hours.
Updated at 9:25 p.m. PT
with comment from a Facebook spokesperson:
“Earlier today we experienced a DNS issue that briefly prevented people who typed
‘facebook.com’ into their browsers from reaching the site. People who accessed the site using
a mobile app, typed ‘www.facebook.com’ into their browsers, or used a bookmark or a search
engine to navigate to the site were not affected. We resolved the issue quickly, and the fix
should be fully propagated now. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
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