Brief Facebook outage prompts complaints on Twitter | Inquirer Technology

Brief Facebook outage prompts complaints on Twitter

/ 08:03 AM August 02, 2014

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WASHINGTON—A brief Facebook outage on Friday prompted a flurry of complaints and comments on Twitter less than two months after a similar incident affected users worldwide.

According to the website downdetector.com, the disruption began around 1600 GMT and appeared to last less than an hour.

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“Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Facebook for a short time,” the California-based Internet titan said in reply to an AFP inquiry.

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“We quickly investigated and are currently restoring service for everyone. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.”

Facebook has yet to pinpoint a cause, but the trouble appeared to be a technical issue.

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During the outage, thousands of users complained they could not access the world’s biggest social network.

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Similar to the brief June service interruption, Facebook users took to Twitter to vent or post comments, many using the hashtag #facebookdown.

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“Facebook is Down?! Oh God! Now How the Hell Am I Going to Find Out How My Friends Feel About Facebook Being Down?!” one user tweeted.

Another wrote: “Facebook going down for 15 minutes is proof that today’s generation would’ve survived approximately 8 seconds in the 80s.”

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A Twitter user with the handle @TheTweetofGod wrote, “#facebookdown. Please remain calm and do not attempt to interact with human beings.”

Some panicked users even called police for help, according to Twitter posts by a sergeant from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Calls to the sheriff’s office came in on both the emergency and non-emergency numbers, the sergeant said.

“#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don’t call us about it being down,” he urged in a post fired off from the @LASDBrink account.

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