On Dec. 10 Gmail was down for 18 minutes and Facebook also suffered outages. The Huffington Post reported that the Facebook outage started at approximately 6 p.m. ET.
A Facebook spokesperson said according to the Huffington Post, "Earlier today we made a change to our DNS infrastructure and that change resulted in some people being temporarily unable to reach the site. We detected and resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent. We apologize for any inconvenience."
The outage was short but it was also significant reported CNET. The network was down for about 20 to 25 minutes and the reasons for the outage are still unclear. According to CNET the main page of Facebook and its mobile site were not loading for many people, though it is unclear the amount of people that were affected by it.
CNET reported that this is the social networking sites first major outage since Oct. 11 when users across Europe were knocked off the website. At the time Facebook said that the cause was because of traffic optimization tests.
Subdomains of Facebook such as m.facebook.com, beta.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com were all loading fine reported Techspot.
Techspot reported that Google's issues were also causing Google Chrome to crash, possibly because "it's tightly bound to logged-in Google accounts for cloud syncing among other less-kosher reasons."
Mashable reported that the lack of photos was also not working, especially for instagram which had just recently completed a major sale to Facebook. Instagram recently just launched a set of new photo tools for Monday. "The service also removed support for its pictures within Twitter," reported Instagram.
As of around 6:35 p.m. on Dec. 10 Facebook was back up and running for most users, reports Mashable.
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