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Post by bmau5 »

thehappypm wrote: post #92
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.

They also do not refund spend during this time typically so wouldn't be a 1:1

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Post by cjohnson318 »

albatros1313 wrote: post #238

I love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.

We've seen continuous layoffs for the past year or so, and the stability of everything is wonky now. Yesterday I had trouble with LinkedIn, last week it was Coinbase, a month or so ago Gmail was hanging. I don't think it's because of Super Tuesday.

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Post by darkwater »

fishnchips wrote: post #129
smcl wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I called out some comment for being racist a little earlier (yeah I know, just report and move on...) and figured they'd managed to pwn my account somehow. Good to know it's not just me.

Strictly speaking, just because there's an outage does not mean you're not pwn'ed.

Maybe the outage happened because they used a 0-day to pwn smcl

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

_yb2s wrote: post #138
geerlingguy wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lament the fact error messages are rarely, if ever, displayed anymore. Just a generic message in its place, usually not even indicating whether it's a 'you' problem or a 'them' problem :(

It amazes me how most smartphone apps- which operate in a wireless environment of likely flaky connections, don't seem to be tested or designed at all to handle loss of connections. They tend to just become non-responsive or do erroneous things like play the first second of an audio file and then auto-pause, without reporting any errors.

Spotify is in offline mode...

This bug has been there since the first time I installed Spotify on a smartphone and it's still there a almost 15 years later.

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Post by daemonologist »

jcwayne wrote: post #217
daemonologist wrote: post #123

It seems to not just be Meta - sites like Downdetector[0] are showing a spike in reported issues from AWS, Google services, and X/Twitter as well. I noticed issues with Google myself. [0] https://downdetector.com/

The sparklines on Downdetector's homepage can't be compared to each other. Spikes that look similar can actually have a difference of several orders of magnitude. Only meta's services have truly large spikes.

That's true and an excellent point. I commented about the reported issues elsewhere mainly because I experienced them myself (google.com and drive.google.com not loading or being extremely slow to load content). That could be entirely sympathetic though - people having issues with Meta flooding other services and briefly overwhelming them.

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

dimask wrote: post #179
the42thdoctor wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was my cue to check hacker news

Me too, after the first couple of "is it down" websites I tried failed to load. HN never fails us when a big website is down. I was also almost ready to reset my password.

Fwiw I tried to reset my pw and it didn't work either. Because FB web app said I input wrong pw.

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Post by kerirenee21 »

Anyone else find this shit weird? First Nation wide outages with all phone carriers, mainly AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile… massive outage… and then now Facebook and instagram. Then banks were having outages and pharmacies.. and when the phone outages accrued mine was working fine and my fiancés was not. I just find all this weird… feel like there’s more to it!

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Post by revscat »

vincnetas wrote: post #213

every one panicked that they got hacked. i got a slim hope that i also got hacked and that i will not bother to recover my account and just roll without FB :) im too week to quit my self.

Maybe post your password to Twitter or something. Let it escape into the wild, where it can be observed in its natural state.
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