Top 10 Reasons Facebook Went Down
Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 17th, 2008 11:04 AMFacebook definitely went down this morning which is a rare occasion for the fast growing social network. Each minute the site is down, the company loses close to 200 new users. The site went down for at least a few minutes. Here are the 10 reasons we came up with that the site went down:
- What no whale? - Twitter always comes up with an image that shows whales and birds. Plurk uses an image of the A-Team with Mr. T. Displaying a catchy image has become a standard for the industry but not even Facebook has one. I guess they expect total uptime.
- Trying a new minimalist design - Their friends at Twitter suggested a new minimalist design. Apparently “down is the new black.”
- It’s not really down … Zuckerberg just saw what YOU wrote about him and he’s blocking you…
- Facebook tried to add @ replies to status updates the same way Twitter does. FAIL!
- The poke war of 2008 came to a climax and exploded Facebook’s servers.
- U.S. Airways baggage employees stole the front page while flying through Philadelphia.
- The servers went down because we had nothing else to write about!
- Facebook wanted to give people something to write about because they hadn’t been getting enough press recently.
- Twitter acquired Facebook and transferred them to their servers.
- You typed the wrong URL
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June 17th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Its 1930 here in Mauritius (GMT + 4hrs), Indian Ocean, and just 30mins ago, facebook was down!
But at this moment, i can access it…
June 17th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I noticed that facebook timed out for like a second this morning. That was around 10:30 am EST.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Its 1930 here in Mauritius (GMT + 4hrs), Indian Ocean, and just 30mins ago, facebook was down!
But at this moment, i can access it…
June 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I noticed that facebook timed out for like a second this morning. That was around 10:30 am EST.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:38 am
“Its 1930 here in Mauritius” Get down to the book-makers and put all your cash on Uruguay to win that new fangled “World Cup” thingamy. *taps nose*
June 18th, 2008 at 5:38 am
“Its 1930 here in Mauritius” Get down to the book-makers and put all your cash on Uruguay to win that new fangled “World Cup” thingamy. *taps nose*
June 25th, 2008 at 7:25 am
June 25/08 - it’s down again this morning.
The cross referencing of friend, groups, and activities is great but they’re wasting our time and their servers dishing up everyone’s bloody photos. If I want to see their pix, I’ll go look. Save some bandwidth and disk access time for the relevant info please.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:52 am
It seems to be down now again, at least for the last hour. Whatever the problem, it seems to be repeating…
June 25th, 2008 at 8:25 am
June 25/08 - it’s down again this morning.
The cross referencing of friend, groups, and activities is great but they’re wasting our time and their servers dishing up everyone’s bloody photos. If I want to see their pix, I’ll go look. Save some bandwidth and disk access time for the relevant info please.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:52 am
It seems to be down now again, at least for the last hour. Whatever the problem, it seems to be repeating…
June 26th, 2008 at 7:07 am
It’s down again . It was not even wroking properly yesterday
The facebook team should fix this problem as soon as possible .
June 26th, 2008 at 8:07 am
It’s down again . It was not even wroking properly yesterday
The facebook team should fix this problem as soon as possible .
July 20th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Down again today… A few brief outages…
July 20th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Down again today… A few brief outages…
October 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Thanks for sharing
Regards
Max
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