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Social network Facebook experienced what appears to have been a very brief server outage on Tuesday morning--15 minutes, tops--but looking at Twitter keyword search site Summize, you'd think it were cause for mass panic:

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Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline.

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by mrbroncosfan June 17, 2008 9:34 AM PDT: What a bunch of losers. Go get a life. 15 minutes, that's all? Heck, maybe if people are that nuts over it they should shut it down for a week just to let those people know that if Facebook goes down, life somehow will go on.; Like this Reply to this comment


by skurewu June 17, 2008 10:10 AM PDT: 15 minutes is an eternity to companies that have a huge public face like Facebook. What's amazing is that some web pages are used for connectivity tests since they are so reliable (ever goto Google or Yahoo to verify your Internet is working properly?) I guess we can take Facebook off that list...; Like this Reply to this comment


by skurewu June 17, 2008 10:10 AM PDT: 15 minutes is an eternity to companies that have a huge public face like Facebook. What's amazing is that some web pages are used for connectivity tests since they are so reliable (ever goto Google or Yahoo to verify your Internet is working properly?) I guess we can take Facebook off that list...; Like this Reply to this comment


by Finden_Lake June 17, 2008 2:10 PM PDT: Not sure if it's a worldwide problem but Facebook has been up and down for the last 30 minutes at least in the UK. Same problem as yesterday, it's not completely down but it's completely unusable.

I wouldn't mind but I've got some very important pokes to send.; Like this Reply to this comment


by aggiedoc August 6, 2009 11:47 AM PDT: Face Book was increasingly unreliable from 8 AM CDT on. By noon it is dead. You cannot log on. I'd guess it is under attack also and it's not "teeny tiny". While it was still up, most people said it was unusuable. Now it's inaccessible.

Major deal? Not in the grand scheme of things, but it's an irritant if you communicate with friends and family regularly this way.; Like this Reply to this comment

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