Facebook appeared to be down for many users
in the past hour or so with many taking to Twitter to complain that
they could not access the site.
When YourGadgetGuide tried to access Facebook from the UK 30 minutes
ago the servers did not appear to be responding although in the last few
minutes it has come back online.
Service monitoring site DownRightNow reported that many of its users
had reported Facebook as being offline although it is unclear what
caused the problem.
UPDATE:
Facebook later explained that the site outage was due to some work they were doing on the site’s DNS servers.
It said:
“Earlier today we made a change to our DNS infrastructure and that
change resulted in some people being temporarily unable to reach the
site. We detected and resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to
100 percent. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Earlier today at around 5pm Eastern Google was also suffering with
reports of a GMail being down in the US, the UK, India and Brazil. were
reported in the U.S., as well as Great Britain and Brazil.
The email service returned after about an hour
“We’re investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will
provide more information shortly,”Google said on the Google Apps
Dashboard.
To see if the site is down or not, you can have a look on http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/
