{"id":140092,"date":"2015-09-28T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=140092"},"modified":"2015-09-29T06:52:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T04:52:42","slug":"facebook-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/140092-facebook-is-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is experiencing downtime for the second time in a week. Many users took to Twitter to report problems loading the website on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the messages which greeted unhappy Facebook members are \u201cService Unavailable\u201d or \u201cSorry, something went wrong\u201d when trying to load the website.<\/p>\n<p>Others received the message \u201cSorry, this page isn&#8217;t available. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the problem was not immediately known, and it is not clear whether it is related to downtime which was experienced a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2015\/09\/28\/facebook-is-down-for-the-third-time-in-two-weeks\/\"><strong>TheNextWeb reported<\/strong><\/a> that Facebook also experienced outages on 17 September and on 24 September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the outages didn\u2019t last very long, it\u2019s very unusual to have so many of them concentrated around a relatively brief time period,\u201d TheNextweb said.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the messages which greet users who tried to access the popular social media\u00a0platform.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_140096\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140096\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140096\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook down\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down.jpg 630w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook down<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_140098\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140098\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140098\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down1.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook down\" width=\"630\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down1.jpg 630w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Facebook-down1-558x400.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook down<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/137478-use-facebook-to-defend-the-anc-mbalula.html\">Use Facebook to defend the ANC \u2013 Mbalula<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/136818-fake-zuma-facebook-account-warning.html\">Fake Zuma Facebook account warning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is experiencing problems, with many users reporting trouble loading the website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73364,"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":[161,33100],"class_list":["post-140092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-is-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140092"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140094,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140092\/revisions\/140094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}