The squawking across Guardian Towers is reaching fever pitch this morning as - omigod - Facebook becomes inaccessible. I'm surrounded by people suffering serious FB withdrawal symptoms: quivering, teary eyes and, yes... even talk of using MySpace instead.
Let's see how long the outage lasts.
But, as media luvvies across the nation weep onto their keyboards, the blame game will now begin in earnest. What's responsible for this outrage? Al Qaeda? Global warming? Paedophiles?
Answers on a postcard, please.
Update: ah, the power of blogging. No sooner does this appear than the site comes back up. What world problem shall we solve next, then?
Update on the update: Message from Facebook's PR team saying the following:
"This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today. This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
Sounds like there might have been some privacy issues (as noted by a commenter earlier on). The Great Facebook Outage of 2007 is over, people. Breathe easy.
