Facebook is down! OH NOES.

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September 23rd, 2010 at 2:04PM

Facebook is down! OH NOES.

This does affect FarmVille and other popular Facebook-based games, so it’s borderline-newsworthy. However Kotaku’s method of reporting the news - pulling posts about the downtime from Twitter - is probably the laziest, stupidest way of reporting on the situation.

Sigh.

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