Facebook, the number one social site broke the web on February 7. Anyone on the sites Hulu, Lifehacker, Washington Post, ESPN, CNN, NBC, Kickstarter and plenty of others where transferred to the Facebook error page. This happened around 4:15 pm and 4:40 pm PST. A Facebook spokesperson says that they quickly resolved the issue and Facebook Connect is once again back to normal.
This surprises me that a huge social network can break the web. There are so many websites out there. From a survey in 2012 there are 644,275,754. That is big and that was in March when that survey took place. My guess is that number is way bigger. So imagine if Facebook screw up all of those websites. That would be a huge problem.This is what the editor of this article thinks-
Facebook will do absolutely everything within its power to prevent another issue of this magnitude; however, the bug does present an opportunity for website owners to step back, big-picture style, and re-evaluate the growing trend of social network integration.
Do you think this will happen again? Why or why not? Where you on the web when this happen? What was your reaction?
http://www.techspot.com/news/51584-facebook-glitch-temporarily-breaks-the-web.html
http://howmanyarethere.net/how-many-websites-are-there-on-the-internet/
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