The Facebook Effect


By Tyler Jefford - Director of Programming at Xapsis Integrated Marketing

Some of you may have noticed on 2/7/13 the internet, so to speak, broke for a brief time. If any website had a Facebook LIKE button, log-in form, comment box or any Facebook connect widgets, upon loading the site, the user was redirected to a broken Facebook page.

A bug within the Facebook Connect API caused many large sites, as well as small sites, to have an interruption in service. If a minor bug that Facebook corrected in 10 minutes can cause such a problem, are you worried about how a bigger issue can affect your website or business?

I would love to hear your thoughts about social web integration.