Why Your Facebook Was Down For 20 Minutes On 19 June
Facebook was inaccessible for about 20 minutes on 19 June, sending panic among for many of its 1.3 billion users worldwide.
By Sadho Ram — 19 Jun 2014, 06:02 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
When Facebook goes down, the whole world knows
Facebook users suffering social networking withdrawal can breathe a sign of relief and get back to liking their friends’ baby photos now. It’s never great for a major site to suffer a major outage — but Facebook can take comfort from the global outcry caused by a few minutes of downtime.
techcrunch.com
Earlier today, Facebook was suffering a major global outage, with the site being inaccessible on web and mobile, with its social plug-ins on other sites also acting up
Facebook users were met with a notice that read, "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can". A SAYS tweet of the same was RTed over 100 times within minutes.
The short shutdown drew attention across the web with many taking to Twitter to ask what all the fuss was about
Soon Twitter was flooded with posts by users complaining that the world was ending. It was not clear whether these people were being serious or there was merely an entire social network making the same joke.
In the midst of the 'chaos', SAYS asked its Twitter followers about the lives they lead without Facebook. Here are some of the best responses:
After the site was back up, Facebook apologised for the global outage but did not say what caused it. It released a statement via its spokesperson to media:
"Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused."
cnet.comMeanwhile, this was not the first time Facebook went down
Facebook went down in the US for some in February of this year. It previously went down for four hours in October, with network maintenance blamed for the freeze. It went down before that in August 2012. In the movie about Facebook, 'The Social Network', founder Mark Zuckerberg was famously quoted saying Facebook would never go down.