Though Facebook should be out getting blackout drunk every night in celebration of Instagram's recent milestone of 400 million users, they've actually spent most of September battling a trilogy (thus far) of major site-wide outages. On Monday afternoon, users gave a collective thumbs-down to the site's brief collapse, a tragedy no doubt spurred by everyone's contradictory desire to talk about the Facebook crash while on Facebook. However, the vitriol wouldn't have been quite as apparent if this incident didn't mark the third major outage in as many weeks.
Though Facebook has entirely avoided offering it, a reasonable explanation for this series of glitches certainly exists. Predictably, that comfort wasn't strong enough to prevent the incessant flexing of the general public's speculation muscles:
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Compared to September's previous outages on the 17th and the 24th, Monday's global existential crisis was reportedly more severe, though Facebook's only description has been "major outages." To summarize: Facebook down, Twitter up.
