Why Facebook turned to fall and madness that broke when it happened – BBC

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Image caption Within two weeks, the network has suffered three falls that have affected users.

Not so long ago that Facebook is in our lives and it seems we do not understand internet is available. So on Monday, when the service is down for almost an hour, madness broke out in other social networks and, surprisingly, in the bag.

This is the second time in less than a week page of the social network goes down. On 24 September, many of the nearly 1,500 million users also encountered the tragic message: “Sorry, something went wrong” and the corresponding promise to fix it as soon as possible.

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A week earlier also lay down the system failures that were detected

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Image caption While the duration of the outage, the company Mark Zuckerberg fell 4% on the stock exchange.

So what is going on Facebook? What is wrong?

A company engineer Mark Zuckerberg explained that failure was in his “Graph API,” says David Lee, BBC reporter specialized.

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Facebook is the term used to describe the kernel of the social network. “The messages, photos and states are connected to people, groups and pages thanks to Graph API,” Lee says.

Therefore, if it fails, we all ran out of Facebook.

And then, when Facebook goes down, it seems that madness is unleashed.

If you have something in common social networks and the functioning of financial markets is that they have no patience. And so they showed in the course of less than an hour-long blackout of the network.

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Image caption Facebook users went to Twitter to joke about the fall doing Trending Topic the hashtag he meant the matter.

Coinciding with the beginning of his downfall, about 14:00 GMT, the actions of the company Palo Alto (California, USA) fell suddenly . 4% , to stand at $ 89.25 US $ action

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As investors became nervous, network users did their own way too.

When she could not get into their accounts, users migrated to Twitter placing the hashtag #FacebookDown between . trends of the day

There showed no little ingenuity and hilarity with plenty of jokes and memes (wisecracks with images) about

Consider a few.

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Image caption Some alluded to how everyone gets because Facebook is falling, albeit an hour.

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Image caption This user imagined in this way for service of Facebook while trying to settle the matter.

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Image caption This user joked with a picture of a famous zombie movie.

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Image caption Other ironizaban with the power of the founder of Facebook over the masses.

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Image caption Even a body of police of London joked about it. “We can confirm that Facebook is down Please do not call us that great opportunity to spend some more time with their families … “.