Facebook outage was its biggest ever

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "By Doug Gross, CNN

(CNN) -- Facebook's outage that shut down the site for many users Thursday was its worst since it became a worldwide social-networking powerhouse, according to an engineer for the site.

In a blog post, Robert Johnson said an error in Facebook's automated system for fixing software problems made a problem worse instead of better." }-http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/24/facebook.outage/index.html

[dw426]

Darn, I was hoping it would stay down longer, like, forever ;D Oh well, that day is coming.

[fsr]

Ya, not long enough! ;D

[Chuck57]

I never even noticed. I don't facebook, myspace or twitter. If we need to socialize, my wife and I visit and talk to people in person. We sure don't post our lives online, like when we'll be away from home, where we live, etc.

This need to announce what you're doing every waking moment is just nuts!!

[acuariano]

is the same guy=owner pushing for diaspora..
like microsoft pushing for win7,win8,ie9

[Mrkvonic]

Where are your friends when you pull the plug? Aha!
Mrk

[DasFox]

So Facebook did a Faceplant, LOL...

[Ibrad]

I learned facebook was down through twitter, it was actually the most discussed about thing for a while :P

[JRViejo]

-{ Quote: "After Facebook went down on Thursday, one thing was certain: People don't like to go without their favorite social networking site.

Industry watchers say Facebook users suffering through the two-and-a-half-hour outage were like drug addicts (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136358/Twitter_outage_spotlights_addiction_to_social_media_crack_) going through withdrawal. Facebook's more than 500 million users have grown accustomed to sharing updates about their cats and colleagues, and posting funny pictures of drunken friends and kids acting silly. They certainly don't like it when the social networking site goes down (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187738/Facebook_apologizes_for_worst_outage_in_4_years)." }-
Facebook outage spotlights social media addiction (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187900/Facebook_outage_spotlights_social_media_addiction) by Sharon Gaudin.

[siljaline]

Facebook blames outage on internal config flaw (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/facebook_outage/)

It was inconvenient for many of us in the security community that use Facebook as a vehicle to exchange information that we normally would not have the opportunity to accomplish.

Comments are not to be construed as an embellishment to use Facebook.

[Sully]

Whats facebook?

Sul.