Technical problems delay or block access to Facebook for the closure of several hours on Thursday, many of the social networks of 500 million users with constant updates of their friends.Togo, has called "the worst defeat that have more than four years, has published a blog Thursday night.
The company has made an error in the software to be overwhelmed by a group set up a database. Facebook has said that closing the entire site, the visitor to stop the database. The company estimates that these problems persist, about two hours.
At night, the place is softer, but some people have been affected by the problems of continuous cooling.
Soko Jennifer Fay, a freelance writer and editor in Seattle, was in the middle of contact with several friends on Facebook for a job as possible because the site has slowed to a crawl frustrating.
"I realized that there was no way of contacting them," he said. "If it fails, when you think the press like you."
The trouble began around 02:05 GMT watch, "said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of the main monitoring system for Internet companies. More than four hours, the site is not available for 22 percent of those who wish to access, said the fee. Usually, or almost 100 percent of the time.
Any service that is not stuttering, but can cause anxiety on the site. Members now have more time for social networking, such as Google, the leading search engine on the Internet, YouTube and other sites. In August, intends to 41100000 minutes of surfers Americans compared to 39.8 million minutes spent on Google this month, according to comScore Group Inc
For some technical problems overshadowed the news that Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of 26 years, will donate 100 million dollars to fight the public school district in Newark. Grant will be released on Friday in the television series Oprah Winfrey.
In addition, under a microscope until October 1 launch of the film "Social Networking", a fictionalized account of the activities that are less flattering portrait of a young director.
loss came two days after vicious spread through Twitter Hack, the site of short messages. The attack is not closed, but scattered Twitter "tweet" from the frozen accounts of text for people to pop-up windows on your computer.