This past weekend while most of us were enjoying the lovely weather in Austin, a number of Facebook users were experiencing issues Saturday. Users that were effected were unable to login, upload pictures, and experienced slow connections. The United States experienced the most problems, but other countries including the United Kingdom, Thailand, and Mexico had difficulties with the site.
Those that were upset took out their frustration on Twitter.
One upset user wrote “I mean, come on! Don’t waste my time-wasting time!”
Another later in the day tweeted "Facebook account is disabled for reasons not explained to me. :( ."
As a result, upset users were successful in creating a twitter storm for the social media site. Facebook responded to the complaints by issuing a tweet
Some people are having trouble accessing Facebook and site features because of an isolated server issue. We are working to fix this ASAP.12:35 PM Feb 20th from web
Fortunately for myself, I was not one of these people that experienced problems, but I did notice Facebook as a trending topic on my home page.
Several media sites have reported that there were isolated server problems, which led to only a small percentage of users experiencing problems. With close to 400 million users, a small percentage is still a large number of upset facebookers.
By Saturday afternoon the problem was fixed and Facebook users rejoiced everywhere, because their favorite time-wasting website was glitch free.
