Facebook endures hours-long outage in the US - CNET

Users throughout the country are apparently unable to access the social network in an outage that seems to have started around three hours ago. January 28, 2013 8:14 PM PST Notification that some users are getting when trying to access Facebook. (Credit: Screenshot by Zack Whittaker/CNET) Many Facebook users in the U.S. are apparently having a hard time getting onto the social network. Twitter is abuzz with user comments that Facebook isn't working for them. And, the site downforeveryoneorjustme.com is also reporting the social network is down. According to The Next Web, users from Texas to New York have complained of intermittent access. Many users have not been affected by the outage, however. While the site is down for many people, mobile notifications seem to be working, as is the mobile site m.facebook.com. Related stories Facebook answers questions about privacy in Graph Search Facebook updates iOS app with voice mail, video, and more Facebook photo of a gun and his 1-year-old gets man arrested Facebook milks Super Bowl mania to strut its football savvy Facebook gives you another way to gripe about privacy Facebook has had outages here and there over the last few years. In December, the social network suffered a DNS issue that caused some people temporarily being unable to reach the site. And in October, the company inadvertently caused many users across Europe to be knocked off the site after problems with traffic optimization tests. It's unclear what exactly is causing the outage now. Web site monitoring service downrightnow.com is currently reporting Facebook's status as "Likely Service Disruption," and at the time of this writing it suggests that the site has had intermittent access for the last three hours. CNET contacted Facebook for more information and we'll update the story when we hear back. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNG6dW8ijGlvOO9LF9UxO2ikSt84xQ&url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57566336-93/facebook-endures-hours-long-outage-in-the-u.s/

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