Facebook suffers the most severe outage in its history

BBC ^

[bryan999]

Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday.

The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users - compared to around 2.3bn monthly users today.

Facebook's main product, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected.

The cause of the interruption has not yet been made public.

"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps," Facebook said in a statement.

"We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."

In response to rumours posted on other social networks, the company said the outages were not a result of a Distributed Denial of Service attack, known as DDoS - a type of cyber-attack that involves flooding a target service with extremely high volumes of traffic.

[bryan999]

And I thought it was just me !

[Stepan12]

I thought they were dunning me as a thought criminal.

[rstrahan]

Can follow, can’t post.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Earlier...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3734383/posts

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Yes, I, too, at first thought it was more censorship of what I was allowed to receive and send. I’m now thinking that if this lasts a few weeks and helps get us off the darned thing, it could be a blessing for all of us.

[butlerweave]

Oh dear Oh my

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I hope thos cost Suckerberg millions! This is real DOMINATION! Too bad, so sad.

[null and void]

The world was briefly a better place.

[jonascord]

It’s indicative of something that I wouldn’t have noticed that FaceBook was missing, probably for months, if I hadn’t read about it here...

[CJ Wolf]

Amen!

[rktman]

Uh, like that’s bad?

[Windflier]

"Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history..."

I'm just devastated, I tell ya.

[golux]

For a moment there I felt a little bit less like Winston Smith. Then, thanks to our Government, I remembered the TSA and the fingerprinting and the "safety stops," and this, and so many more things that keep us safe and secure and connected as one... And I breathed a sigh of relief and took a selfie of my selfie feedback pick in front of the tele-screen.

[Karl Spooner]

It would be great if the CIA was doing this.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Wouldn’t know, never been there.

[Karl Spooner]

"Democrats, Muslims, and terrorists hardest hit".

[Lurkinanloomin]

The CIA is behind Fecebook

[Bigtigermike]

Nah.....Twitter is the real cesspool. If that went down then it would be heaven on earth kind of a day. Instagram just makes you depressed when you see the seemly perfect girl half naked in a bikini in a beautiful home with wonderful dogs and smiling about how like is perfect with delicious meals

[Delta 21]

[BobL]

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps,” Facebook said in a statement.”

I’m surprised that they didn’t give a more style response, such as:

“We’re aware that Facebook user experience might be slightly less than ideal for a very small number of people in our Facebook family, but we will quickly resolve the issue with an optimum, inclusive, solution.”