Facebook restored access to its
social media website after a 40-minute outage on Monday, the second time
in a week that the site went down.
Users saw an error message
that read "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll
get it fixed as soon as we can."
Company shares were down nearly 4% at $89.25 (£58.83) shortly after the site went down. It also crashed on Thursday.
The social networking site is used by nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide.
Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter
Alright, alright - the world is still spinning.
But
Facebook going down twice, in a relatively short timeframe, can be
fairly significant. It moves markets - Facebook share price is down
almost 4% as I write this.
The company's status page detailed a "major outage" on Monday, but things were soon back to normal.
A
quick post-mortem, posted by an engineer at the company, said the
problem was with its Graph API. In simplest terms, the "graph" is the
term Facebook uses to describe the core of Facebook's system. Posts,
photos, statuses are all connected to people, groups and pages via the
Graph - and that's what failed.
Sometimes Facebook downtime can also affect other companies that tap into Facebook's data - like Tinder, for example.
The
last time this happened, Facebook admitted it was something its own
engineers had caused by tinkering. That's likely the case again here,
but twice in a week will be a little frustrating for both users and
shareholders.
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People took to Twitter to lament and poke fun at the situation.
The Kingston police force in London pre-empted emergency cold turkey calls, with tongue firmly in cheek. Image copyrightTwitterSites that monitor disruptions said North America was particularly badly affected this time.
"We
are currently restoring Facebook services that people had trouble
accessing earlier today due to a configuration," said a Facebook
spokesman.
Some users took to speculating about the cause. Image copyrightTwitterOthers sarcastically bid the site good riddance. Image copyrightAshley GoldAnd some enjoyed underlining that Facebook's loss was Twitter's gain.
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