Facebook has issued an apology after the social network’s website and apps went down for about half an hour on 19 June, the longest outage for more than four year. “Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time,” said Facebook in a brief statement, adding “we resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.” The company has yet to explain what caused the worldwide outage. The last time Facebook went down for longer than a few minutes was in 2010, when the site was unreachable for over 2 hours due to a server error.
With 1.28 billion monthly users Facebook has grown to be the second most popular site on the internet, second only to Google. The outage followed Facebook’s launch of Slingshot, a new mobile app that lets users share self-deleting photos and videos with each other.
