Facebook down earlier today; The Hunger Games to blame?

[Shahrukh]

Yesterday I Noticed a Downtime

[Mr Happy]

I seriously doubt this is the reason. In fact I'd be amazed if it was.

Yesterday Facebook rolled out a new photo viewing page to users where the comments are on the right (copying Google+) so you don't have to scroll down to see the comments. This makes people more likely to comment and engage which means more traffic, more time on site and more money.

This is just one example of code update they roll out all the time and often when they roll out code changes it affects the sites preformance for a few minutes. That's what happened about a week ago when people though Facebook was being DOSed by the group Anonymous but in fact it was just a code push out. Remember sites like Facebook don't go down for maintenance or updates so any updates affect the sites users during the upgrade process.