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Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime

Posted by timothy on from the you-like-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook officially gave out more technical details on the endless loop in a database control mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world."

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  1. not very technical by datapharmer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The technical details are that I have an incompatible browser? Really Slashdot? Did you even check the links? of course not...

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    Get a web developer
  2. Twitter... by PmanAce · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if Twitter had a noticable increase in usage during the Facebook outage, or other social portals?

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    Tired of my customary (Score:1)