It is no surprise to hear people vexed over minor problems such as Facebook. In Twitter, hundreds of tweets have been tweeted that Facebook was down last Friday evening. The first reports of the widespread outage began at 5:40 p.m. Eastern Time. As of, 6:05 p.m. EST, the site still appears to be down. UPDATE (6:10 p.m. EST): Service seems to be restored for most users. Here are some sample tweets from tonight’s outage: athletetraining: I find it amusing that the day after Facebook “takes over the web”, they are down. Heh. TreeDiva: Is it just me or has Facebook gone down on the pst 5 min? I can’t access it with either browsers or my BlackBerry app. pennylane3: why is facebook down in the school library? its finals week, i need my procrastination It maybe amusing but to some people, Facebook is their life. According to Hitwise said that in US alone, Facebook is the most visited site which is followed by Google then Yahoo Mail falls on the third. Yahoo come fourth and Youtube is is surprisingly fifth. Facebook Downtime Caused Twitter Traffic is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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