Facebook Returns After Limited Outage

For the second time this month, Facebook is down for many users. We started hearing reports of the outage on — where else? — Twitter, soon after 8 p.m Eastern. Last week, the social network suffered a 20-minute outage; it had several more lengthy blackouts earlier in the summer. Here’s the current Twitter chatter about […]

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For the second time this month, Facebook is down for many users.

We started hearing reports of the outage on — where else? — Twitter, soon after 8 p.m Eastern. Last week, the social network suffered a 20-minute outage; it had several more lengthy blackouts earlier in the summer. Here’s the current Twitter chatter about the problem:


Interestingly, I’ve been able to access Facebook on desktop and mobile throughout. And judging from the comments on my Facebook post below, I’m not the only one unaffected:

Postscript: The outage, which appeared to mostly effect the Eastern United States, seems to have been resolved.


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Martin Beck
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Martin Beck was Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter from March 2014 through December 2015.

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