Mild outages poking Facebook?

A number of us at CNET News noticed that Facebook was having some outage issues on Monday afternoon, delivering "connection to the server was reset while the page was loading" messages to members of our editorial staff in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.

The off-and-on outages would make the social network available to some while inaccessible to others, and sometimes lasted for a few minutes before coming back. Facebook has not yet confirmed the presence of outages, but a company spokeswoman said via e-mail that she was looking into it. Meanwhile, connections appear to have been restored for most of us who noticed outages.

If you've been having issues accessing Facebook today, please drop us a line in the comments section.

[oce.net]

I received multiple connection failure messages- slow loads- chat breaking- and sometimes partial access to the site this afternoon - since around 2 PM PT.

[oce.net]

I received multiple connection failure messages- slow loads- chat breaking- and sometimes partial access to the site this afternoon - since around 2 PM PT.

[frozone16]

Yep I definitely noticed the outages. Kept saying to check my internet connection. I found that if I went to the home page, which always loaded, I was allowed to access one page from there, before I would then again receive the error. Not life threatening, but annoying none the less.

[Stoutboy1]

I was having issues but everything seems to be working great now.

[BestSellerAuthors]

Facebook called me a spammer today after sending 5 hand typed individual replies to private messages.

I guess that overloaded the sytem. It went down just after thet

Thanks goodness Twitter is up

[db_shorty]

I am currently having problems with Facebook Chat not working, other than that everything seems fine.

[P8TYS]

We received this message from our property manager in our downtown SF building:

Dear Tenant:

This morning around 11:00 AM you may have experienced a brief power interruption in your premises. The reason for this was a failure of PG&E equipment at the sub-station level in San Mateo which affected some customers in San Francisco. PG&E said the cause is unknown at this time and their crews are working on the repair. The estimated time of restoration should be around 7:00 PM this evening, although the time may change as the day progresses. Unfortunately, you may also feel a dip tonight once the lines are fully restored. I apologize for this inconvenience and hope that knowing ahead of time will somehow alleviate potential impacts.

[Robin Majumdar]

I also noted that the FB search system wasn't functioning (sometime between 1400-1500 EDT) with a message saying "search is not available" ; this was while connecting from Canada.

A few moments later a colleague tried connecting and it took a good 30 seconds before FB finally responded... a few minutes later everything seemd normal, but ... we didn't spend any real time on Facebook. :)

[djolley]

I definitely noticed similar problems this afternoon - and just had an error message in the past 30 minutes (7:00-ish Central Time).

[flyerdog]

LAST WEEK FOR A WHILE WAS THE SAME... ERROR MESSAGE CONNECTION PROBLEM ... AS TODAY.... SEEMS TO BE BACK ON ....

[awaltc]

I encountered the same issues (main pages loading, but others did not). I don't pay to use the FB site, so life goes on. CNET you should have used this space/RSS link to tell us some more about the new iPhone ;-)

[mkb0909]

It appears to be down on Friday afternoon too. I tried exploerer and firefox from two different PC's.