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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook is our biggest traffic source after Google. I'm inclined to forgive them for occasional outages.
I did say: > if you don't really need it. In your case, you obviously do.
I don't think we're uncommon. Most sites that I see plastered with Facebook embeds are publications, and I'm sure they all see results similar to ours. Facebook is RSS for the masses.
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#23Current Status: API Latency Issues
We are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved or we have an ETA for resolution.
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#24It's hard to overstate the damage this is causing for merchants that prominently display FB like on their pages - lots of big ugly blank spaces / errors out there. Realize this is temporary but shows why if you install any external vendor tool as a part of your site make contingency plans that switch on errors.
for like buttons you should iframe them (same for anything from a third-party service)
facebook uptime has been good overall, considering they doubled in size in 12 months to 550m users
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#28Who's next to go down? downrightnow.com?
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#30As an aside I notice that 'Facebook' is not a trending topic on Twitter. Seems the term must be blacklisted in some way along with all the swears and other undesirable terms. Which seems a bit underhand by Twitter. Edit: I notice that 'Facebook isnt working' has appeared now. I've blogged about this issue here: http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/1174729229/twitter-mostly-... (if anyone cares)
during one of the twitter hacks the blacklist application was accessed and facebook was on the list (as was google and a bunch of other brand names)