脸书遭遇史上最长死机 Facebook, Instagram suffer outages

Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps are are displayed on an iPhone on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in New York. Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and is working to resolve the issue. [Photo: AP]

Facebook says it is aware of outages(死机 sǐjī) on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and is working to resolve(解决 jiějué) the issue(问题 wèntí).

According to Facebook's status page , the outages started around 11 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. That page, which calls the problem a "partial outage," states that Facebook has experienced "increased error rates" since that time.

Downdetector.com, a site that monitors(监控 jiānkòng) site outages, said the Facebook problem affected parts of the U.S., including the East and West Coast; parts of Europe and elsewhere. Both Facebook's desktop site and app appeared to be affected(受影响 shòu yǐngxiǎng). Some users saw a message that said Facebook was down for "required maintenance(维护 wéihù)."

Facebook did not say what was causing(引起 yǐnqǐ) the outages.

Via its Twitter account, Facebook said the outage was not due to a "distributed denial of service" or DDoS attack(攻击 gōngjí), a type of attack that hackers use to interrupt service to a site.

重点词汇 Key word:

死机 (of a computer) crash

• E.g. Jìsuànjī xìtǒng jīn zǎo jiǔ diǎn sǐjī, yīncǐ wǒmen shénme yě méi gàn chéng.
  计算机系统今早九点死机,因此我们什么也没干成。
  The computer system went down at nine this morning, so we haven't been able to do anything.