Facebook Restores Service After Outage In Many Countries

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Facebook Inc said service to the world's largest online social network was fully restored on Friday, following a widespread outage that affected users in multiple countries.

"Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Facebook for a short time. We quickly investigated and have fully restored service for everyone. We’re sorry for the inconvenience," Facebook said in an emailed statement.

Facebook, which has 1.32 billion monthly users, is still investigating the incident, but all signs suggest a "technical" failure rather than any suspicious activity, said a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity because the probe is private.

Some visitors to the site on Friday were greeted with a message that read "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

It was not immediately clear how widespread the disruption was, though Reuters was aware of users having trouble accessing the site in the United States, Chile and India.

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; editing by Andrew Hay and Richard Chang)

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Yesterday, at around noon, Facebook went down. The earth kept spinning, shockingly, but Facebook was unavailable. For some users, it would not load at all. For others, it showed the ominous message, "Sorry, something went wrong."

In the second quarter, Facebook had posted revenue of $2.91 billion. The second-quarter lasts 90 days, from April 1 to June 30. That's $32,333,333 a day. That's about $1,347,222 per hour. That's $22,453 per minute. Not too shabby. It looks like the outage lasted from from about 12:08 p.m. to 12:27 p.m.. So for the 19 minutes no one could use it, Facebook just lost roughly $426,607.

Considering how much Facebook earns every day, it is a tiny hit, but nonetheless, not too many companies can lose almost half a million in less than a half hour.

On the other hand, Twitter jumped:

Facebook's last outage, which was overnight this past June and lasted about a half hour, also cost the company about half a million dollars.

While this Facebook outage was only about twenty minutes, panic set in for many users right away. A police department in California reported countless phone calls regarding the outage:

Sergeant Burton Brink of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went onto to explain, "We get calls all the time like this, cable TV, all sorts of things not working, they think we control." Facebook's control center is just a bit further north than L.A., and we don't believe Marc Zuckerberg is personally fielding any outage calls.

 

[Rich-M]

Just a cost of doing business, think of the people saved from that pollution for all those hours!

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Hey, that's how I keep up to date with what all my grandkids are getting into.......

 

[Rich-M]

Unfortunately you are right and that is the only reason I am there ever (which isn't much).