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Facebook is suffering from an extended outage that is causing downtime for users based in North America. The site has been offline for many in the US this evening — including Texas, New York and others — for around an hour and a half, although other in certain parts of the country are able to access the social network as normal. Overseas users appear to have remained unaffected.
Update: Facebook is back to normal working order. In a statement — below — the company says that a DNS issue was to blame.
We’re not one for unnecessarily highlighting downtime or service inaccessibility here at TNW but the outage — while not a full-scale, worldwide problem — has left Facebook inaccessible to many for a considerable amount of time and that will be of concern to the company. With one billion monthly active users to serve, keeping the site online and reliable is a top priority.
Website monitoring service downrightnow flags Facebook’s current status as ‘Likely Service Disruption’, and it suggests that the site has experienced intermittent access issues since 20:00 EST.
Facebook-owned Instagram has been operating as usual.
We reached out to Facebook for more details. Here’s the company’s response:
Earlier today we experienced a DNS issue that briefly prevented people who typed ‘facebook.com’ into their browsers from reaching the site. People who accessed the site using a mobile app, typed ‘www.facebook.com’ into their browsers, or used a bookmark or a search engine to navigate to the site were not affected. We resolved the issue quickly, and the fix should be fully propagated now. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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