Facebook Search API Returns A Fail Whale

Starting yesterday afternoon, around the time that the stock market was in the midst of crashing, Facebook’s new search API stopped returning updated status updates. The result was that all dependent applications stopped functioning. While the search API only launched a couple weeks ago at f8, many large search providers have already integrated robust indexing of Facebook’s search results.

Erik Ober of Booshaka tipped us off yesterday evening about the issue and by this morning, he told us that he had seen 18 hours of delayed results.