This afternoon the Facebook site went down for a period of time. Currently I am still not able to access the site. The good thing? Facebook going down qualifies as a news story. Ill update this post with more information shortly.
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Posted by Nick O'Neill on July 7th, 2008 4:55 PM
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Thank you for posting! I've been going nuts trying to figure out if it was just me. I was in the middle of posting on someone's wall when the problems started. When I hit post it said "Wall not available" which was weird. Then I tried to go to my home page and the next thing I knew the whole site was down. I'm just glad I semi-know what's going on now. I'm not used to this from Facebook, it reeks of Myspace…
Comment by Facebook Junkie — July 7, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
Thank you for posting! I've been going nuts trying to figure out if it was just me. I was in the middle of posting on someone's wall when the problems started. When I hit post it said "Wall not available" which was weird. Then I tried to go to my home page and the next thing I knew the whole site was down. I'm just glad I semi-know what's going on now. I'm not used to this from Facebook, it reeks of Myspace…
Comment by Facebook Junkie — July 7, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
Nick,Any updates on this? I know it's obviously back up, but is there any further information regarding the downtime?
Comment by Jonathan Dingman — July 10, 2008 @ 10:06 am
Nick,
Any updates on this? I know it’s obviously back up, but is there any further information regarding the downtime?
Comment by Jonathan Dingman — July 10, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
I have not been able to access my Facebook account for some time today. Hoepfully the site will pick up shortly.
Comment by Margarita Sindu Utom — July 24, 2009 @ 6:37 am
Can't access Facebook today, is anyone else having problems?
Comment by reo — September 1, 2009 @ 2:02 am