Why won't facebook work?

Question

It says

Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #11.85863554.1285274704.7c212a0

Answer 1

The social media world is under attack. Earlier this morning, Twitter acknowledged that its downtime was the result of a malicious Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), and now Facebook tells us that their intermittent site problems are also the result of DDoS activity.



According to a Facebook spokesperson “Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered network issues related to an apparent distributed denial of service attack, that resulted in degraded service for some users. No user data was at risk and we have restored full access to the site for most users. We’re continuing to monitor the situation to ensure that users have the fast and reliable experience they’ve come to expect from Facebook.”



In other words, we’re in the midst of a deliberate attempt to take down two of the world’s most popular social media sites: Facebook and Twitter. Additional reports indicate that popular blogging community Live Journal has also been having service issues today – most likely, not a coincidence, though we don’t yet have confirmation from them (Update: LJ acknowledges they are also victim of a DDoS attack).

Answer 2

Why in the world would you ask that after everyone else has asked it in 1 minute intervals?



Facebook is not working because too many people are going onto the site at the same time, maybe because the new facebook movie. They should have seen this coming and tried to fix it, keep trying, I got online after about 15 page refreshes.



go for a walk and get online in a few days, next time use google instead of clogging up yahoo answers with this stupid question

Answer 3

Facebook may be slow or unavailable for some people because of site issues. We're working to fix this quickly.



http://twitter.com/facebook

Answer 4

Same for me too. They might be fixing it. Just look around the Internet I'm sure there are bloggers that are going to tell us what's wrong.

Answer 5

Facebook is ok! omg How many ppl are asking the same question!?

Check this out! before u reboot u pc=D

http://twitter.com/facebook

Answer 6

The aliens have taken up #FACEBOOK O.o !! lawl

its a global problem

Answer 7

Im glad i'm not the only one, I thought it was just me for a second there.

Answer 8

LOL this is hilarious. You're like the 1000th person to ask.

Answer 9

server down

Answer 10

Facebook is down.

Answer 11

EVERYONE is experiencing this..ive been trying to log in for hourss!

Answer 12

grrrr wish i knew driving me nuts

Answer 13

Same here!!!! I wonder 4 hw long its gna b dis way!!!! :(

Answer 14

It's either hack, glitch or crash.

Answer 15

Its doing it to me too...

Answer 16

my facebook isnt working either... it suckss D: :'(

Answer 17

It's currently offline as they are adding new updates. Please sit tight

Answer 18

i hacked it

Answer 19

Dunno. I can't get on it either.