[Bon mots]

Down for over an hour... not coming back up... prime weekend time.

Almost 9000 tweets on the subject already...

Developing...

[svcw]

Really, not more than one second ago I posted a story.

[svcw]

Wait I just received five replies to that post and four requests to play scrabble - if they are down - where?

[Bon mots]

I know, I know, many of you won't care, so ignore this thread. But this is a multi-billion dollar company that makes its business strictly online. To be knocked offline for whatever reason on a Friday night during prime-time is catastrophic.

Down Right Now / Facebook

Facebook

[GenXteacher]

Just on there a couple of minutes ago....

[Wings-n-Wind]

FB is good here...

[skeeter]

Just checked - FB is alot faster than FR...

[HotHunt]

Been on a FB blog all afternoon with my high school classmates. Seems to be working as good as it usually does. I don’t see any indication that it is “down” or knocking people off the site. Maybe you made the FB gods mad? :-)

[tomkat]

             

[ottbmare]

Weird. My Facebook didn’t go down. Different areas, I guess. I’ve been on all afternoon and have had no trouble posting there for both personal and business use.

[mnehring]

Odd, I’m not having any problems. Loads fast and no one in my feed is mentioning a thing about problems.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

BofA is down too..

[Revolting cat!]

Where do I report that Facebook is down?

[PLOM...NOT!]

I thought it was me getting suspended after I posted the uninstalling Obama pic....what a coincidence.

[I see my hands]

This might tide you over. It's educational too!

[oh8eleven]

not coming back up
One can only hope.

[clintonh8r]

OMG! OMG! OMG!

[driftdiver]

Sounds series, hugh even.

Are you logged on?

[Bon mots]

Facebook says reports that its servers have been hacked by Anonymous are false, and that the company is actually experiencing outages on the European continent.

A hacker that goes by the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn3r claimed to have taken down Facebook in Europe earlier today, siting a vulnerability called cross-site request forgery. @AnonymousOwn3r is otherwise known for hacking into GoDaddy in September. “Evidence” was posted on Pastebin, but Facebook called the hacker’s bluff, telling VentureBeat in an email:

There has not been a hack of Facebook, we have investigated these claims and they are not valid. The evidence cited was produced by an automated vulnerability scanner that alerts developers of potential vulnerability, and we have found these all to be false alerts.

We expect Anonymous just like we expect any other attack on any other day. Due to our size, we face the same threats as seen everywhere else on the web, but we have developed partnerships, backend systems, and protocols to confront the full range of security challenges we face. Facebook has always been committed to protecting our users’ information, and we will continue to innovate and work tirelessly to defend this data.

A website called DownWhere?, however, shows Facebook as only “moderately” available in Denmark, France, and Norway, and is “severely” unavailable in Italy. Facebook told VentureBeat that this was the result of a change to its domain name system.

“Earlier today we made a change to DNS as part of a traffic optimization test, and that change resulted in some users being temporarily mis-routed. We detected and resolved the issue immediately, but a small number of users located primarily in Western Europe experienced issues accessing the site while the DNS addresses repopulated. We are now back to 100 percent, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

[Bon mots]

In my previous post they said that they are back to 100%, and that is not at all true. I'm still getting this:

[B212]

hurray! good riddance, the quicker it crashes the better...