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Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by Astro9k »

bl4k wrote: post #30
dansingerman wrote: post #19

As 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)

Wow. So twitter censors disparaging comments about companies? Wow.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#42

Post by ryanwaggoner »

rwhitman wrote: post #18

And that, my friends, is why its risky to build your business on top of FB Graph API. In terms of reliability, FB is not twitter, but it certainly isn't google either...

I came here to post this same thing, but I just started thinking about it. When was the last time FB went down like this and took a bunch of core functionality down with it? Has it ever happened? And how long are they down...30 mins? Is that 30 mins of downtime every few years really more damaging than that the (potential) value that integration with the graph API or FB Connect can bring? Yes, you look like an idiot to a few users, but maybe you have 100x as many users as you'd have otherwise. I think the real reason not to build your business on the FB API (or Twitter or whoever) is strategic, not because of potential downtime.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#43

Post by [deleted] »

bl4k wrote: post #31

Well somebody has screwed it up on their end. Only the www record is not resolving, a lot of the others are, for eg: http://developers.facebook.com/ $ nslookup facebook.com ns1.facebook.com Server: ns1.facebook.com Address: 204.74.66.132#53 Name: facebook.com Address: 69.63.189.11 Name: facebook.com Address: 69.63.181.12 Name: facebook.com Address: 69.63.189.16 $ nslookup www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com Server: ns1…

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Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#44

Post by bl4k »

rryyan wrote: post #39
bl4k wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I'm curious about this and Googling failed me, do you have a link?

I took a screenshot on my other machine - I will upload it when I am on there next

There were hundreds of items on the list

(Edit: here is this link for now: http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-tw...

I am sure that I saved the entire page of blacklisted words)

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#47

Post by _e_ »

dansingerman wrote: post #19

As 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)

Well looks like someone is having fun...

http://twitpic.com/1yqrwc

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#48

Post by chrisgoodrich »

Everyone should calm down and realize that Facebook being down for a few hours is not going to kill anyone's business. It may cause trouble and disruption, but not anything more intense than a daily commute in Los Angeles.

That being said, this makes me question Facebook's ability to deliver on the "Social Graph" promise. If they truly want to build a completely social internet, this kind of downtime can't happen.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#49

Post by seldo »

Astro9k wrote: post #41
bl4k wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Wow. So twitter censors disparaging comments about companies? Wow.

More likely that terms that are continuously mentioned in huge numbers (and therefore don't count as "trending") are omitted.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#50

Post by jonknee »

dansingerman wrote: post #19

As 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)

I see "Facebook down again" trending and earlier saw "Facebook down".
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