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Facebook Goes Down; Back Online In Less Than An Hour

It looks like Facebook is down. Many are reporting the outage on Twitter and other social networks. Even downforeveryoneorjustme.com confirms that Facebook is down. Facebook has been offline for about 5 minutes at this point. I expect it to go back online any second now. Here is a screen shot of what happens when you […]

By Barry Schwartz

Published on August 1, 2014 • Last updated on May 13, 2021 • 1 minute read

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It looks like Facebook is down. Many are reporting the outage on Twitter and other social networks.

Even downforeveryoneorjustme.com confirms that Facebook is down.

Facebook has been offline for about 5 minutes at this point. I expect it to go back online any second now.

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Here is a screen shot of what happens when you try to access Facebook:

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Facebook has sent us a statement, “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”

Update: At about 12:45 p.m. EDT, Facebook is back up for me.

Update #2: Facebook sent another update, “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.”

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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