Minor outage at Facebook Monday

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Users were reporting performance and availability issues with Facebook Monday. Some complained on Twitter of slowness and pages that didn't load. Others said that third-party desktop apps that connect to Facebook (such as Digsby) lost their access to the service.

The outage did not appear to be widespread. A spokesperson for Facebook said in an e-mail to CNET:

As a result of a network device failure, a very small percentage of users lost access to Facebook for a short period of time earlier today. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe.

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by ralfthedog January 12, 2009 3:17 PM PST: In other news, Burger King servers swamped by free Whopper requests.

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by Orion Blastar January 12, 2009 5:01 PM PST: The Slashdot effect. Maybe it was too many Facebook players playing Knighthood, Battle Stations, Mob Wars, and other popular Facebook games all at once?; Like this Reply to this comment


by Dustyn January 12, 2009 6:32 PM PST: OH....MY.....STARZ....; Like this Reply to this comment


by January 13, 2009 9:10 AM PST: The funny thing is I experienced this outage only when using Firefox. On IE7 everything was OK.; Like this Reply to this comment

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