Facebook is Down, Internet Implodes

[Deleted User]

Is this the end of the internet?​

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If you’re currently writing us an email to tip us that Facebook is down, you can stop — we’ve gotten a few hundred of those in the past few minutes. Yes, Facebook appears to be down at the moment. I’m currently getting a DNS failure message (above), others are apparently seeing other things.

This is a problem not just because the site is down, but Facebook’s omnipresent Like button is also completely down, and so is Connect, and Platform — in other words, the entire Internet (or a good percentage of it) is feeling this pain. We’ve reached out to Facebook to see what is up. More to come.

Until then, might I suggest you view the list of things to do when Twitter is down? It applies here as well.

Update: Facebook’s Platform status page gives a little more insight:

Current Status: API Latency IssuesWe are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved or we have an ETA for resolution.

You’ll also note that they had the same issue yesterday for a few hours — and yes, there were a number of reports yesterday of Facebook’s site being down as well.

Update 2: Here’s the statement from Facebook:

We’re currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

~just to appreciate the scale of death, type in recent facebook down into google and get About 1,190,000,000 results.

 

[PolloDiablo]

fuck facebook!
UP THE TEMP!!!!

 

[Fellow]

I was hoping the last sentence would read, "Facebook" has been permanently shut down.

 

[Deleted User]

I was hoping the last sentence would read, "Facebook" has been permanently shut down.

Surely you mean, MySpace?

 

[luke_c]

Win.

 

[haflore]

Cool, I can't wait to see what happens next.

 

[Nobunaga]

it s back i can access but to slow :/

 

[Agjsdfd]

I was hoping the last sentence would read, "Facebook" has been permanently shut down.

+1
Hopefully its down for good!

 

[Forstride]

Lol, let's all hate on Facebook because we don't have any friends TO add!

 

[Deleted User]

Lol, let's all hate on Facebook because we don't have any friends TO add!

 

[gumgod]

if you look at the updates search on google for Facebook DNS Error it even graphs how long it's been down today.

Ah technology... good for reporting when things fail.

 

[FireEmblemGuy]

Facebook arbitrarily goes down once every few weeks, I don't see why this is a huge issue. The only thing that annoys me about this particular time is that I just got a new Android phone, and since it doesn't have all my old contact info I figured I could get almost everything I needed by syncing it up with facebook. Only Facebook's down, so...

 

[mightymuffy]

Think they cocked up with the recent changes, and decided to revert, ballsing the whole thing up in the process..... just tried the mobile site and it's working fine. Give it a few hours and it'll be back to normal! (though hopefully it'll have accidentally deleted the random add lasses that keep hassling me on chat lol! Must grow the balls to tell them piss off, or at least remove them as friends!)

 

[Juanmatron]

HORRAY!!!

Facebook mind:

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

It is down goshdarnit...

 

[Deleted User]

 

[CrimzonEyed]

Facebook transformed to --> Faceroll

 

[Deleted User]

Twitter=

Facebook=

 

[Feels Good Man]

Is this part of that plan made up a few months ago? >__> lel

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

It's been on and off for me today. Pretty annoying really... Oh well!

Also, people hate Facebook for lame reasons. Anyone that belongs to those haters is an idiot.