Facebook again went through a minor glitch on Wednesday. During a routine “code push,” or update, some Facebook users started receiving personal messages from other users that were not intended for them.
Several Facebook users complained on Twitter, that they were receiving dozens of private Facebook messages from people they didn’t know.
According to Facebook, it affected a small number of users and was promptly fixed. Affected users were blocked during the repair to limit the spread of private information.
A company spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail, “During our regular code push earlier yesterday evening, a bug caused some misrouting to a small number of users for a short period of time. Our engineers diagnosed the problem moments after it began and worked diligently to get everything back in its rightful place. While they fixed the issue, affected users were not able to access the site.
Facebook users were disappointed when Facebook was started giving trouble to its users yesterday.
Facebook users in the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Thailand, and other nations had to face difficulty logging in the site while others were shut out. Some users came across various troubles like difficulty in uploading photos, posting on each others wall.
Many of those users started reporting the problems on Twitter, with many of them venting their anger. The most affected were the users from US.
Facebook itself used its rival site to announce the problem, tweeting, “Some people are having trouble accessing Facebook . . . We are working to fix this ASAP,” from its Twitter account.
“Because of isolated server problems, small percentage of users faced problems accessing Facebook, and some specific profile features,” said Facebook spokesman Matt Hicks.
The problem is resolved now. Spokespeople for the company said technicians had isolated the problem and repaired the server. Around 5:30 p.m. Eastern, Facebook announced the problems were all clear.
Facebook has generally eluded hiccups such as yesterday’s wide-spread problems and has never shut down completely. Ironically, Twitter has generally had more technical glitches than Facebook. The entire service was down for several hours last August after getting hacked.
