Meta outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Meta outage

#91

Post by MyFirstSass » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:45 PM UTC

jzw8833 wrote: post #47

MyFirstSass wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes both Youtube and Instagram seems to be down too for me.

Instagram is down but Youtube seems to be fine for me

Youtube seems to be about 1/3 i get "Something went wrong" error on the frontpage, so only sporadic.

Re: Meta outage

#92

Post by thehappypm » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:45 PM UTC

MyFirstSass wrote: post #50

Anyone have a good guesstimate of how much money is "lost" when Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp (more?) are down each minute?

Naively, divide ad revenue by time to get a dollars-per-time.

But thats naive because ad serving isn’t totally sold out so they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window. If the outage is short, then the impact is small.

But some markets are totally sold out and there’s no making up for lost impressions.

Re: Meta outage

#93

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:45 PM UTC

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Re: Meta outage

#94

Post by MandieD » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

Special bonus: today is Super Tuesday, which is when a large number of US states have their primary elections.

Re: Meta outage

#95

Post by shrikant » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

neogodless wrote: post #27

https://metastatus.com/ They are not down. (They just don't work for lots of people!)

> They are not down. (They just don't work for lots of people!)

Seems about par for the course for big tech these days. There's currently an issue affecting the Google Ads API causing timeouts when sending data to it, but the Google Ads Status Summary page shows nothing [0]. However, there's an incident detail page showing some vague hand-wavy information about incidents [1], which appears to be unreachable from anywhere on the Summary page. Gah.

[0] https://ads.google.com/status/ [1] https://ads.google.com/status/publisher/incidents/gNG1ppoY3y...

p.s.: The actual incident details URLs are available in the "RSS feed" link very transiently and tend to disappear -- the feed, which incidentally for fun reasons, is actually an Atom feed.

Re: Meta outage

#96

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

basch wrote: post #86

toomuchtodo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[Edit: Misread the comment, mea culpa]

For both companies? Or is the report of Google auth being down only tied to meta logins, and a misdiagnosis?

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Re: Meta outage

#97

Post by issafram » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

Seems like somehow YouTube is also affected? I'm starting to think that this is an attack of sorts and not Meta specific

Re: Meta outage

#98

Post by bigwheeler » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

I was logged in on mac, and the page refreshed and logged me out without any interaction from me, while I was reading a post. Then I went to check on my phone and I got the "We had a problem with the page you tried to reach." dialog box.

Re: Meta outage

#99

Post by julianeon » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

Facebook is not working, but you wouldn't know it from this page, which says everything is working.

Re: Meta outage

#100

Post by intelkishan » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

It's the same for me in India