{"id":542229,"date":"2010-04-23T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=115756"},"modified":"2010-04-23T18:17:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:17:24","slug":"facebook-sees-major-outage-%e2%80%94-takes-out-partner-site-plugins-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542229","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Sees Major Outage \u2014 Takes Out Partner Site Plugins, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been inaccessible to many, if not all, users for the last 30 minutes or so. This is incredibly bad timing for the company, which is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/21\/facebook-gives-outside-sites-persistent-connections-to-its-users-2\/\">pitch itself this week<\/a> as a central part of the web&#8217;s infrastructure. Not only is the Facebook.com site down, but error messages are popping up on partner sites using the new social plugins launched this week.<\/p>\n<p>Not to get all I-told-you-so, but after hearing the presentations at Facebook&#8217;s f8 this week, the burning question on my mind was: <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/21\/facebook-makes-itself-a-central-point-of-failure-for-the-web\/\">Has Facebook made itself a central point of failure for the web<\/a>? It appears that the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inline-related-posts-115756\" class=\"widget inline-related-posts alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"widget-title-wrap clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\">More on <span><a class=\"category-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/topic\/social-networks\/\" title=\"Social Networks\">Social Networks<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"inline-related-posts\">\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/23\/facebook-phone-palm\/\">Why Nobody Wants Palm &#8212; Except Maybe&nbsp;Facebook<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/23\/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard\/\">Why We Need an Open &#8220;Like&#8221;&nbsp;Standard<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/22\/your-moms-guide-to-those-facebook-changes-and-how-to-block-them\/\">Your Mom&#8217;s Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block&nbsp;Them<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/22\/everybody-loves-pandora\/\">Everybody Loves&nbsp;Pandora<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"widget-bottom clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, jokes are running rampant on <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=facebook+down\">Twitter<\/a> about how long till people tweeting about Facebook take down Twitter. <a href=\"http:\/\/downrightnow.com\/facebook\">Downrightnow.com<\/a> is reporting a service disruption of 28 minutes and counting, though just before we hit publish, we were able to load Facebook.com again. We&#8217;ve reached out to Facebook about the outage, which says it&#8217;s looking into it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please see the disclosure about Facebook in <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/author\/lizg\/\">my bio<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_115759\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 620px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-115759\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/23\/facebook-sees-major-outage-takes-out-partner-site-plugins-too\/cnnsocialpluginfullpage\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"CNNsocialpluginfullpage\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/cnnsocialpluginfullpage.png?w=610&#038;h=379\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115759\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Facebook-powered social plugin on CNN&#39;s homepage draws a blank (bottom right). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=115756&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=i58AC-sEukw:86__O4jA1h0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/i58AC-sEukw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been inaccessible to many, if not all, users for the last 30 minutes or so. This is incredibly bad timing for the company, which is trying to pitch itself this week as a central part of the web&#8217;s infrastructure. 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