Comments on: Mild outages poking Facebook?

Access to the site has been going in and out for several users across the U.S., CNET News has noted. The site has not confirmed outages.

[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.