Facebook Goes Down for Some Users
Some Facebook users were having problems accessing the site Wednesday, as the social-networking giant apparently faced a rare outage that left it intermittently unavailable.
The site wrote on its Twitter account that some people haven’t been able to connect to the site because of “an issue with a third-party network provider.” Facebook said it was working to fix the problem as soon as possible. A Facebook spokeswoman told Digits that the company was in contact with the provider and in the meantime was trying to bypass the affected connections.
Website performance-monitoring company AlertSite said Facebook was “achieving only 76.19 percent availability” Wednesday afternoon and that the problem didn’t appear to be confined to certain regions, as AlertSite saw connection failures in Phoenix, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
