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Re: Meta outage

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Post by rimunroe »

jon-wood wrote: post #374
DeusExMachina wrote: post #281

Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including: - Google - YouTube - Google Play - T-Mobile - X (Twitter) - Discord - TikTok - Pokemon Go - Snapchat It looks like they all have the same failure point. [1] https://downdetector.com

Or people are using Facebook Auth for them. I don't really trust Down Detector, which despite the claims is really People Winging on Twitter Detector.

> I don't really trust Down Detector, which despite the claims is really People Winging on Twitter Detector.

I'm confused. Isn't listening for spikes in complaints about outages a great way to detect them? I know for a fact some service companies monitor social media channels for this purpose (among others). I'd be surprised if that wasn't more or less standard practice.

I've checked Down Detector for ISP outages in my area many times now. It's always confirmed them before my ISP did.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by gpvos »

kome wrote: post #489
btbuildem wrote: post #440

Hope it stays broken. Imagine? People would blink, confused, and slowly start to wake from a decade-long stupor.

how many people, realistically, use it daily? I think not a lot

Lots and lots. Look at how many people are in this thread.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by kurthr »

MandieD wrote: post #528
DeusExMachina wrote: post #281

Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including: - Google - YouTube - Google Play - T-Mobile - X (Twitter) - Discord - TikTok - Pokemon Go - Snapchat It looks like they all have the same failure point. [1] https://downdetector.com

Additional fun factor: today is Super Tuesday - primary elections in a lot of US states. This outage will result in absolutely no ridiculous conspiracy theories.

If your election integrity relies on Facebook, YouTube, or even DNS to be up... there are bigger issues.

Actually, if all of them including Xitter went down, maybe things would get better? All the sunlight photons might get sucked in by too many eyeballs though, and there could be grass trampling.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by nickpsecurity »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #281

Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including: - Google - YouTube - Google Play - T-Mobile - X (Twitter) - Discord - TikTok - Pokemon Go - Snapchat It looks like they all have the same failure point. [1] https://downdetector.com

A lot of sites have features that say “log in with your X or Y account.” They connect to each other somehow. I never studied that protocol. I wonder if authentication failures across services could be tied to it.

For process of elimination, do all of these services do multi-platform logins? Or do some not connect to anyone else?

Re: Meta outage

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Post by bburnett44 »

andtheboat wrote: post #348
DeusExMachina wrote: post #281

Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including: - Google - YouTube - Google Play - T-Mobile - X (Twitter) - Discord - TikTok - Pokemon Go - Snapchat It looks like they all have the same failure point. [1] https://downdetector.com

iirc these all use GCP which would make sense for them all to be disrupted at the same time. I wouldn't have thought Meta was GCP reliant though?

There’s no way fb uses gcp
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