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Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes
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Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes
#52Earlier 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.
No, it just prevents comment from trending. Not just disparaging comments, all comments, it seems.
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#53As 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)
Trending topics: Mono Jojoy , Facebook Isnt Working , Bishop Eddie , Internal Server ,
Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes
#54Well 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…
Hilariously touch.facebook.com still seems to work.
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#55And 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…
They had a BGP-related screw-up a couple of weeks ago as well.
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#56IT Dept. around the world will now get washed with calls, on how the internets dont work.
the BOFH will be making a list of people wasting time on facebook for later blackmail.
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#57Well 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…
I imagine that would be a relatively easy fix, more likely they took the record down to debug internally without getting flooded with requests.
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#58It'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.
Or people who rely on Facebook for shared login...that must be down as well.
This must really be hurting Quora.
Luckily, they added Twitter authentication as well. But still, now a large portion of their site cannot login because of Facebook.
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#59And 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…
I fully agree with you. If your app is heavily social it would be ridiculous not to leverage the worlds largest social network, even with very occasional down-time.
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#60Nice to see the big boys experiencing mundane issues as well now and then...