What happened to Facebook and why is Adrienne Maloof out for blood? The web wants to know

The conspiracy theorists are out in force after both Facebook and Google had technical issues yesterday. The outages of various services including Gmail appear to be unrelated. Facebook was down for about 20 minutes for some users and is back this morning. Google problems were more extensive, but they too appear to be resolved. But thankfully, Twitter has been unaffected and able to feed the paranoia. 

By Tim Swift, The Baltimore Sun

December 11, 2012