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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Seems like the perfect time to launch isisitdowndownrightnow.com.

Seems like it should be isisitdownrightnowdownrightnow.com

I've said "I've said it before, and I'll say it again" before, and I'll say "I've said it before, and I'll say it again" again.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Outage is top story on CNN and Fox. Facebook is not returning their calls. Sheera Frenkel at the New York Times has been able to get a little more info, but not much.

Now Twitter is starting to have problems with overload.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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I don’t know how true it is but a few reports claim employees can’t get into the building with their badges.

I remember my first time having a meeting at Facebook and observing none of the doors had keyholes and thinking "hope their badge system never goes down"

In case of emergency, break glass...

...the doors are glass right?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.

I don’t know how true it is but a few reports claim employees can’t get into the building with their badges.

I've heard on Blind this is unrelated, more of a Covid restriction issue.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Does anyone have a reasonable guess on how much money they have already lost?

Likely $0. Ad views lost now will likely be made up for later. And even if there is a reduction in views, it just makes other views more valuable. Facebook doesn't have real competitors, so the money isn't going anywhere else.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Anyone wanna estimate the cost of total downtime for facebook and instagram, as far as lost ad revenue goes - per minute?

Looks like someone built a counter: https://facebookadloss.facebookadloss.repl.co/

Edit: the counter just jumped from 10B to 60M, so I doubt it's any reliable :)

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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There's still no connectivity to Facebook's DNS servers: > traceroute a.ns.facebook.com traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms 2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms 3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms 4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110)…

My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.

What do you think will be the impact on WFH and office requirements?
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