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Facebook [Was] Down

posted by chromas on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the downtime-as-a-public-service dept.

DannyB writes:

Facebook appears to be down.

A link for this submission? Really? But it is down, as in not working. Error 5 - something went wrong.

[chromas adds] From VOA:

Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for more than several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said in a tweet, but its parent Facebook Inc.'s app still seemed to be down for some users around the globe.

Certain users had trouble in accessing widely used Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook apps earlier Wednesday, in one of the longest outages faced by the company in the recent past.

[...] A Facebook spokesman confirmed the partial outage, but did not provide an update. The social networking site had issues for more than 12 hours, according to its developer's page.

Facebook took to Twitter to inform users that it was working to resolve the issue as soon as possible and confirmed that the matter was not related to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by isostatic on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:54PM (3 children)

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:54PM (#814159) Journal

    Share price is higher than it's been since August 2018. There appears to have been no impact

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:15PM (#814166)

    You're obviously wrong: apparently they need to crash more so the price goes even higher.

  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:40PM (1 child)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:40PM (#814180)

    Everybody sighs in relief, well done Facebook, let's buy some shares for this bold and prudent step.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday March 15 2019, @04:05AM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday March 15 2019, @04:05AM (#814661)

      Predicting market moves is all about predicting most people's behavior...people who buy things in the market, at least.

      The dataset Facebook streams and collects is really valuable when it comes to predicting people's behavior.

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