Facebook back up after server errors crippled website
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. (April, 2010) Credit: AP
UPDATE (5:45 p.m.): This (should) be the final update. From what it appears, Facebook is back and running on all cylinders. The issues lasted for the last few hours, but navigation seems smoother now and Facebook chat is running normally.
UPDATE (5:10 p.m.): While users can navigate through the website, it looks like Facebook chat is still fussy, and the site is moving very slowly. It's unclear if this is the DNS server error still causing problems, or maybe a surge from all of Facebook's loyal users returning to update their status update. This is all speculation, obviously, with Facebook's only tweet on the issue coming an hour ago.
UPDATE (4:55 p.m.): Looks like Facebook is back up after a DNS server error crippled the site and its "Like" button plugins throughout the Internet for a couple of hours. Phew! Life can proceed as normal!
UPDATE (4:15 p.m.): Facebook posted from its Twitter account the following: "Facebook may be slow or unavailable for some people because of site issues. We're working to fix this quickly."
UPDATE (3:32 p.m.): We received messages from the New York Islanders and other Long Island tweeps that they are having problems, too.
Additionally, the Huffington Post cited DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com, a website that tracks server problems, saying that Facebook is down.
Just a day after Twitter experienced a JavaScript-fueled hack, Facebook is taking its turn on the faulty social media train.
Many users on Twitter are reporting that Facebook is either down, very slow or kicking users off. Running a search for "龜book" on the microblogging site reveals users in several different languages reporting problems.
On our Newsday Facebook account, Facebook chat - I pair it with AIM and GChat on Adium - is not working properly; we were "kicked" off the social-networking site several times, and clicking through the site often results in a timeout or white screen.
Comment below to let us know what Facebook problems you're experiencing.
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