Facebook Briefly Killed the Internet

Written By Unknown on Friday, 8 February 2013 | 02:23

For a few mins this evening, Facebook was redirecting users visiting dozens of websites — including Mashable — to mysterious blunder pages.

The greeting online was flattering most what you’d expect, with — as a The Next Web remarkable — hashtags like “Facebookmageddon” and “Facebocalypse” common among Twitter users.

So what happened, exactly? There was an emanate with a Facebook Connect API that caused users on sites that use that API to route users to Facebook blunder page.

For example, if we were visiting Mashable and logged into a site regulating your Facebook comment (and we were also sealed into Facebook), we were automatically redirected to a page that looked like this:

Exiting a page or attempting to re-access a original

Read full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/feb/04/richard-iii-skeleton-last-plantagenet-king-live


Source:
http://www.ezonearticle.com/2013/02/08/facebook-briefly-killed-the-internet/

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