{"id":104493,"date":"2014-06-19T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=104493"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T10:47:20","slug":"facebook-apologises-for-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/104493-facebook-apologises-for-downtime.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook apologises for downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Inc.&#8217;s website crashed briefly on Thursday, temporarily preventing computer and mobile phone users from reaching the site around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>During the outage, Facebook users ranging from Australia to South Korea to India and Britain were greeted with a message saying &#8220;Sorry, something went wrong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the outage was not immediately known. Its exact duration could not be confirmed but service was restored in less than an hour.<\/p>\n<p>It prevented users from posting to the social networking site &#8220;for a brief period of time&#8221;, a Facebook spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Supriya Kurane and Sampad Patnaik in Bangalore and Eric Auchard in London; editing by Dale Hudson and Jason Neely)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/104483-top-internet-province-in-south-africa-revealed.html\">Top Internet province in South Africa revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/104473-facebook-down.html\">Facebook down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/104405-youtube-paid-music-service-announced.html\">YouTube paid music service announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook website returns to service after crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":80379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161],"class_list":["post-104493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}