Just when users were trying to come to terms with the Monday's Gmail outage, there were news about Facebook outage last evening. The social networking site appeared to be down for some users, and lacking images for others.
The Facebook outage apparently caught the attention at around 5:45pm EST Monday. Users tweeted about not being able to access the site at all, while some were not able to see images on the site. According to the reports, the problem could be with Facebook’s Content Delivery Network.
However Facebook’s mobile app seemed to be running fine.
It was a bit disappointing to find the lack of images on the site especially considering that Instagram, which recently completed its sale to Facebook, just launched a new set of photo tools and filters Monday. The service also removed support for its pictures within Twitter, a Facebook rival, last week.
Facebook experienced downtime on November 30, making this the second time in two weeks
Update: The site was back after approximately 15 minutes of outage.
A Facebook spokesperson released the following statement. "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."