Half-hour crash cost half a million dollars in Facebook

Half-hour crash on Facebook, in which users worldwide could not get access to the service, cost of more than 500 thousand dollars. Such an assessment leads analyst magazine Forbes.

If we consider that in the first quarter of 2014 was Facebook's revenue of $ 2.5 billion, the average per hour, the company earned during this period with 1.16 million dollars. Consequently, a simple half-hour cost of social networks in more than half a million dollars. However, this small amount is given, for example, that Facebook last year spent about $ 20 billion just for the acquisition of other companies.

Facebook was not available on Thursday from 12:00 Moscow time. When you go to a page of social network reported that "something went wrong." On the basis of user messages in Twitter, the failure was global. Facebook monthly active audience of about 1.3 billion people, and every day in gay go about 800 million users.

"We have a technical failure occurred because of what people could not update their page on Facebook for a short time. We quickly corrected this fault and completely restored work. We apologize for the inconvenience "- said" Lente.ru "the press service of Facebook.

Serious damages in the social network was also registered in October 2013. Then when you go to a gay display a message about closing the site for temporary technical work. Failure was eliminated after about three hours. In December 2012 the social network site was not working for about 45 minutes around the world. Failure then affected Facebook users in North America, Western Europe and Russia.