If there's a blizzard and no one can post about it on Facebook, did it really happen?
Social media users might have been pondering that question yesterday when Facebook went down just after midnight, prompting users to take their complaints and snarky comments to Twitter for an hour.
"Things to do when Facebook is down: 1. Tweet that Facebook is down. #facebookdown," Jonathan Gebauer tweeted, using a hashtag spawned by the outage.
"We will sweetly call babies born in 9 mos 'blizzard babies' but in our hearts we will know that they are actually the spawn of #facebookdown," tweeted Nicole Sanchez.
Bay Staters dying to share their artsy photos of the blizzard on Instagram also were out of luck.
"Facebook is one of the most elaborate and robust corporate networks in the world, it's not every day that you see a piece of their network go down, even briefly," said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis for Dyn, a New Hampshire Internet performance company. "Over a billion plus people around the world have no problem using this site every day."
Facebook said an internal glitch caused the outage, although the hacking group Lizard Squad initially took credit for the disruption on Twitter.
"This was not the result of a third party attack, but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems," Facebook said in a statement.
Roger Kay, founder and president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, said users have started thinking of Facebook as an essential service that can never go offline.
"I think the public expectation is that it will always be on, but the reality is networks go down sometimes," he said. "This is not critical infrastructure the way the NORAD radar system is, the way the nuclear power plant monitoring system is — this is a digital playground."
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