This will be great for productivity!
I thought the average facebook user was of retirement age.
In a lot of developing countries, Facebook is often the only app that a significant part of the population uses. And that includes young adults as well.
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#312Nothing of value was lost.
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#314Down here in South Africa too.. it's weird that it's not affecting everyone, yet it's worldwide.. It's almost as if it's taking down a percentage or section of addresses/uid's on their database... I wouldn't be surprised to hear that everyone affected, joined the app at a similar date, or the sequential uid's.
To me this sounds like more than a bug.. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a hack.
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#315Anyone have a good guesstimate of how much money is "lost" when Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp (more?) are down each minute?
This is rough napkin math, no need to downvote if anyone knows the real number and this is way off :)
Meta 2023 ad revenue was $131 billion. To make it easy, let's assume an even spread for # of users and ad revenue generation per hour/minute of the day and day of the year (which I'm sure is not the case).
This would be:
$358 million per day
$15 million per hour
$249k per minute
This also assume a minute down won't be somewhat or totally offset by a spike in users when it comes back online.
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#316Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp
time to move away from undersea cables to satellites.
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#318Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp
I was thinking is deploy of DMA "compliant" unbundling the day before it takes force.
Could be both.
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#319On Super Tuesday in the US today, too. Very interesting timing for how much political nonsense is on social media.