Facebook, largest social community websites in the world, shut itself down Thursday evening after the code for several new products was made public before the products were ready for launch, the company confirmed to ShotsWorld.com
The downtime lasted approximately 30 minutes, from about 2:15 AM PST until 2:45 AM PST on 17th Dec 2010.
The outage appeared to be related to the
redesigned Brand pages, as well as a new photos section called Memories, Mashable reported.
Facebook emails the following statement which serves to only heighten the mystery:
“For a brief period of time, some internal prototypes were made public to a number of people externally,” the statement reads. “As a result, we took the site down for a few minutes. It’s back up, and we apologize for the inconvenience.”
“Some internal prototypes were made public to a number of people externally.”
