[News in English] Facebook Connect issue wreaks havoc on the Web

Facebook had a temporary glitch this afternoon that


pulled people from

different Web sites to a Facebook error message when they tried to

access an account that was linked to the social-networking site.




TNW's Alex Wilhelm first tweeted about

this at 4:15 p.m. after trying to read an article from a news site:

"Reading article. Dragged from two diff sites to Facebook, which

displays what appears to be a permissions error. Wa?"


The issue, which was related to Facebook Connect, was resolved around 4:40 p.m.


Facebook issued this statement shortly after, saying it was a bug, but the company did not elaborate further:


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