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Facebook Web site suffers service disruption

By Reuters
Posted Sep. 23, 2010 at 4:13 p.m.

Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network, experienced technical difficulties Thursday that made its website slow or inaccessible to some of its 500 million users.

A separate Facebook feature that is integrated into other websites, allowing visitors to “like” particular articles or videos, also appeared to be affected by the problem, according to media reports.

Facebook would not say what caused the disruption, saying in a statement that the company was experiencing “some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable to some users.”

The company said it was working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

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8 comments:

  1. Jan Hammock Sep. 23, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Can not access facebook. There is a problem connecting to facebook. It will let me login but then it stops there.

  2. marie Sep. 23, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    cant get on facebook!!!

  3. Jasmine Sep. 23, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    I would like to know if there is an ETA on this issue. One source stated that this was a third party issue. If that is the case, why are there so many users that are affected by this outage? I live in Michigan, other users in Chicago, Illinois, are affected also. If you are refering to a third party as an ISP, how can an ISP span over such a large WAN when usually the area is broken up into a smaller circumference, or rather, regioinal area?

  4. Jasmine Sep. 23, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    I would like to know if there is an ETA on this issue. One source stated that this was a third party issue. If that is the case, why are there so many users that are affected by this outage? I live in Michigan, other users in Chicago, Illinois, are affected also. If you are refering to a third party as an ISP, how can an ISP span over such a large WAN when usually the area is broken up into a smaller circumference?

  5. Jasmine Sep. 23, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    haha. sorry about the first post. Now, my network froze and this posted twice as I was trying to edit what it was I was trying to say. :)

  6. Andyt Sep. 23, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    People are running down the streets screaming and tearing their hair out. I saw one guy jump off the curb.

    Oh the humanity of it all!!

  7. WW Sep. 23, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    What is wrong with Faceboook? They disabled people account like crazy for spamming and now it’s down? What is wrong with FB?

  8. Nacole Sep. 23, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    WOW im going crazy without facebook lol… the site is the best but will be glad when it is back up.