Undo! Undo! Red Button Hit, Facebook Scrambles
Spokespeople for Facebook have confirmed that the site was deliberately taken down today for a few minutes while staff undid an accidental early release of several features not yet ready for the public.
Spokespeople for Facebook have confirmed that the site was deliberately taken down today for an unspecified period of time while staff fixed a glitch. We received an email stating:
For a brief period of time, some internal prototypes were made public to a number of people externally. As a result, we took the site down for a few minutes. It’s back up, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
We really admire Facebook’s integrity in responding to situations such as these — plenty of technology companies make the mistake of lying to the public or the media after an outage.
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