Article 2195R Facebook profile glitch 'kills' millions. Even Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook profile glitch 'kills' millions. Even Mark Zuckerberg

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Nicky Woolf and Olivia Solon in San Francisco
from Technology | The Guardian on (#2195R)

A glitch on the social media site found people logging in to their accounts on Friday, only to find they had been prematurely 'memorialized'

Rumors of Mark Zuckerberg's death may have been greatly exaggerated - but by his own billion-plus user website, as a glitch on Friday afternoon led Facebook to declare two million users, including Zuckerberg himself, prematurely dead.

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