Updating slip: Facebook offline for brief period
         
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     Friday, 17 December 2010, 18:58 IST                                                   
                                                                                              
                                                                                          
                                                                                             
    
                                       
               
  
      
  
    
          
San Francisco: Facebook went offline for short period to fix an updating slip.
"For a brief period of time, some internal prototypes were made public to a number of people externally," a Facebook spokesperson said in an email reply to an AFP inquiry.
"As a result, we took the site down for a few minutes. It's back up, and we apologize for the inconvenience."
The problem reportedly occurred while Facebook was revamping pages for businesses at the website, which boasts more than 500 million users.