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Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by kyrra »

hiei wrote: post #52
wybiral wrote: post #16

Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on. Edit: The points on this post keep going up and down every time I check these comments. Yes, it was sarcasm, I was joking, but I was trying to point out that most people rely on a smal…

Gmail and other Google products went down last night. Close though. Thankfully not on Twitter or FB.

I don't believe Gmail was ever fully down. For me, I was just having problems with attachments. I also noticed app icons in the play store failing to load.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by wybiral »

ceejayoz wrote: post #94
cronix wrote: post #90

It looks like something much larger is going on. If you look at the front page of https://downdetector.com/ you'll see most major sites/backbones are having issues (Verizon/ATT/Sprint/CenturyLink/TMobile/Comcast/Level3/etc).

That site relies on user reports. I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right. For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".

I believe that too but some of the services seem unrelated (like Flickr and Capital One).

Now, another interpretation is that the reports are simply false...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by onychomys »

ceejayoz wrote: post #94
cronix wrote: post #90

It looks like something much larger is going on. If you look at the front page of https://downdetector.com/ you'll see most major sites/backbones are having issues (Verizon/ATT/Sprint/CenturyLink/TMobile/Comcast/Level3/etc).

That site relies on user reports. I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right. For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".

That's a fair point, but those folks probably aren't reporting AWS problems, and it's showing a spike too.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

#104

Post by corobo »

josteink wrote: post #81
wybiral wrote: post #16

Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on. Edit: The points on this post keep going up and down every time I check these comments. Yes, it was sarcasm, I was joking, but I was trying to point out that most people rely on a smal…

> Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? Google sure, but what people in the real world cares about twitter? Twitter could be down for days and only the technocracy would notice.

Twitter is where we complain that Google is down

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

#105

Post by ceejayoz »

onychomys wrote: post #103
ceejayoz wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That site relies on user reports. I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right. For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".

That's a fair point, but those folks probably aren't reporting AWS problems, and it's showing a spike too.

AWS is reporting an EC2 outage ("increased API error rates and launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region") in Oregon currently.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

#106

Post by cronix »

ceejayoz wrote: post #94
cronix wrote: post #90

It looks like something much larger is going on. If you look at the front page of https://downdetector.com/ you'll see most major sites/backbones are having issues (Verizon/ATT/Sprint/CenturyLink/TMobile/Comcast/Level3/etc).

That site relies on user reports. I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right. For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".

That's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...

Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

#107

Post by hilbertseries »

new_guy wrote: post #91
nimir wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not a big fan of social media too but you will be suprised ... For example here in Sudan (East Africa) the country has been under continuous protests for over 2 months now (53 dead, 4k+ detained, 500+ injured) with strong censorship from the regime & silents from the internatinal community. So facebook, whatsapp & twitter are the only media left for the people to fight for freedom —> every Thursday is the main p…

No disrespect intended, but what's the rationale behind protesting just one day a week? It just seems completely unproductive, people can't affect any kind of change when they're scheduling it between watching the football and eating big macs.

Lmao "no disrespect intended" "scheduling it between watching the football and eating big macs." pick one and keep in mind you're talking about Sudan and not the US...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

#108

Post by tivert »

cronix wrote: post #71
popz41 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.

That's why it's called PRISM. It's exactly what you describe. Splitting an optical signal into 2 using, basically, a prism. One signal goes out to the net as normal, the other goes to their own datacenters, that they keep continually building and expanding. The newer ones are being build on military bases, for added security. Check em out. Look at the size and cost of them. Some are over a million sq. ft. That's a lo…

> The newer ones are being build on military bases, for added security.

IIRC, the NSA is organizationally part of the military, and it's currently headed by a military officer who gives congressional testimony in his uniform (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMi241XLeQ8). It makes sense they'd build on military bases, it'd be kinda weird if they didn't.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

#109

Post by ceejayoz »

cronix wrote: post #106
ceejayoz wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That site relies on user reports. I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right. For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".

That's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...

The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports.

It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.

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