Why does Facebook keep crashing?

Social network hit by an unprecedented three outages in less than two weeks

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Facebook suffered another outage last night – its third in 11 days.

The social networking website, which is used by nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide, was out of action for about an hour at 7pm BST, prompting hysteria and humour among its users.

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