According to CNN.com, For several hours Thursday, Facebook was down for many of its users, which was the second day in a row that the site was not able to accessed. The problem started early Thursday afternoon and was fixed around 5:30 pm Eastern Time (ET). "Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users," a spokeswoman said in an e-mail. "The issue has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience." According to the spokeswoman, the problem was not related to the one on Wednesday. The problem on Wednesday was with a third-party network provider that shut the site down, or made it slow down significantly for several hours. She didn't go into detail on the nature of Thursday's problem. Facebook is the world's largest social-networking site and has more than 500 million users. On Facebook's blog for developers, a post went out saying the site was "experiencing latency issues" or a time delay. Some technological observers have guessed that the delay on the developers' platform was unlikely to have been a complete part of the problem. The outage on Facebook led thousands of social networkers to talk about Facebook on Twitter. "Somebody needs to fix Facebook ASAP," Gizmodo blogger Rosa Golijan wrote on her Twitter feed. " I don't like to tweet to show I 'like' all the stories about it being down." Several Twitter users, expressed sorrow about the fate of the starving virtual plants and animals of FarmVille, while others noticed the consequences of the outage.
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