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Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by judofyr » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:05 PM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #5

noodle wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

perhaps the Stuxnet virus was built to target facebook? ;)

You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies

Wait, doesn't Facebook already have 500 million enemies?

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by KingOfB » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:06 PM UTC

The one day I choose to update my FBConnect code!

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by smackfu » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:07 PM UTC

I like how their API response time chart intentionally doesn't have a Y scale. But clearly it is busted:

http://www.facebook.com/developers/chart.php?type=at_total_t...

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by natrius » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:08 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #10

Don't place 3rd party javascript on your pages if you don't really need it.

Facebook is our biggest traffic source after Google. I'm inclined to forgive them for occasional outages.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by bond » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:09 PM UTC

Rarely use it so I didn't notice...

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by jacquesm » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:10 PM UTC

natrius wrote: post #14

jacquesm wrote: post #10

Don't place 3rd party javascript on your pages if you don't really need it.

Facebook is our biggest traffic source after Google. I'm inclined to forgive them for occasional outages.

I did say:

> if you don't really need it.

In your case, you obviously do.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by someone_here » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:11 PM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #13

I like how their API response time chart intentionally doesn't have a Y scale. But clearly it is busted: http://www.facebook.com/developers/chart.php?type=at_total_t...

Oh dear, DNS error on that link.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by rwhitman » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:12 PM UTC

And 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...

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by dansingerman » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:13 PM UTC

As 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)

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by orblivion » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 8:14 PM UTC

I'm sure somebody out there told you so