Facebook Goes Down; Second Major Outage in a Month

Update: As of 12:00 p.m. PT, Facebook seems to be operational again.

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Facebook is experiencing yet another episode of downtime, and the web is noticing.

At approximately 11:35 a.m. PT, we began to notice issues with the world’s largest social network. Soon the entire network went down for us, and it seems that we’re not alone.

There’s currently no word as to why the site is experiencing downtime, but we’re sending messages to our friends at Facebook to find out. We’re also noticing that some methods of posting to Facebook (e.g.Hootsuite) are still functional, so this may be a limited outage.

By 11:50 a.m. PT, some of Mashable’s staff were able to access Facebook, albeit at a snail’s pace. Others weren’t able to access it at all.

Today’s downtime comes less than a month after its “worst outage in over four years.”. On September 23, the social network went down for over three hours due to “an unfortunate handling of an error condition” involving its automated system for verifying configuration values.

We’re investigating the exact cause of today’s downtime issues, and we’ll report back once we’ve learned more.

[via mashable]

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