Read more outage stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/43569/outage.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 26 May 2012 06:40:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/107779/facebook-shut-itself-down-for-30-minutes.htmlMatt Cantor<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=785903&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331175839' border='0' />Facebook closed its virtual doors to users for about 30 minutes yesterday, after the code for a handful of new products went public before those products had been rolled out, reports Wired . The 550-million-user site shut itself down between about 4:15 and 4:45pm ET. “For a brief period...Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010.http://www.newser.com/story/107779/facebook-shut-itself-down-for-30-minutes.htmlFri, 17 Dec 2010 10:05:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68367/gmail-outage-means-unprecedented-googling.htmlWill McCahill<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=289257&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331214840' border='0' />The outage affecting Google’s email service today sent millions to its search function, Jennifer Van Grove writes on Mashable—with so many looking for an explanation that, for a time, Gmail-related topics were 18 of the top 20 US queries. “The frenzy of Google searches on its status certainly proves...The error message that alerted users to today's Gmail issues.http://www.newser.com/story/68367/gmail-outage-means-unprecedented-googling.htmlTue, 01 Sep 2009 19:59:06 CDT