The social networking site Facebook suffered a period of short outages yesterday. A spokesman told the BBC that the outage was not thought to have affected every country, but Netcraft found the site to be unavailable from all of its performance collectors, located in London, Pennsylvania, San Jose, Phoenix, New York, Virginia and Italy.
Facebook’s popularity has continued to grow and is now the 33rd most visited site by users of the Netcraft toolbar. Originally called “The Facebook”, the company renamed itself after purchasing the domain facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000. By October 2007, Microsoft announced that it had bought a 1.6% share in Facebook for $246 million.
[via: netcraft]
WOW that is insane.
Facebook must be coining it if Microsoft bought a 1.6% share for $246 million.
What scares me is that when Facebook experience downtime, that the public actually goes into panic. It’s crazy and an exploitation on peoples rights in my opinion.