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Jan 12 2009

Facebook had a minor service outage today

Shoaib Hashmi 

facebook Facebook had a minor service outage today

A number of users today reported about the performance and availability issues with the popular social network, Facebook. Some faced slowness while loading the page, while according to some the third party desktop apps which connect to the social network became unavailable. The chat feature also became unavailable. According to an email sent by Facebook’s spokesperson to CNET:

As a result of a network device failure, a very small percentage of users lost access to Facebook for a short period of time earlier today. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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  • annrein
    I've been able to log in to Facebook all day, it's now 1:15 and it still is returning the message "Account Temporarily Unavailable.

    Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes."
  • P Gray
    My Facebook has been down for over 2 hours now.
  • That is surprising.... we haven't heard of any such issues with Facebook
  • k phillips
    still out here in Utah, USA for me.
  • J. Ketchum
    It is still out here!
  • Name
    It's 5:48 pm EST and I can't get to Facebook
  • jed
    I've had nothing for a week. "maintenance."
  • Alma Weinstein
    Same thing happened to me during the weekend and also today. It's been down for HOURS!!!
  • Rob Geraghty
    Short outage? It's been inaccessible for 12 hours for me. I just keep getting a message saying that my account is unavailable "for a few hours".
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