Facebook went down for about 10 minutes and there are over 60,000 distressing but hilarious tweets about it (huffingtonpost.co.uk).
Or, at least, 60,000 “distressing but hilarious” somethings-to-say that didn’t involve the tagliatelle just had at tea-time.
“When the ‘Sorry, something went wrong’ warning box popped up, carnage ensued. Social media managers everywhere were re-thinking their career options, people who were bored at work had to switch to Pinterest and everyone collectively took to Twitter to moan about it…”
Indeed, even those seated reading the Fbook on 3G while instructing lightsaber drill were moved to… oh Bantha poodoo, tweet a comment…
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”
As, for sure, being “good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living, that’s…” not possible without Facebook.
Seriously, when everyone just looked at porn when a site was down you just moved on to the next link HotBot had pulled up and if that was down too, oh well, you might have to go chat to someone on a BBS after all. Mass panic for the millions may have occurred, but I bet there was a few pouting brown eyes for those responsible for calculating the ad revenue loss for those ten minutes after too, because, for sure, with that underlying emphasis on earning and attention social media has never really been about or for boring techies has it.
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Except when it’s time to fix it and the “financial impact” is keeping those calculating the loss’ brown eyes pouting.
30th September 2015
Why does Facebook keep crashing? (theweek.co.uk).
“Facebook suffered another outage last night—its third in 11 days. … An engineer at the company said the latest problem centred around Facebook’s Graph API—the core of the service’s system that connects posts, photos and statuses for people, groups and pages. The graph failed, taking the website down with it. The outages have had a financial impact on the company. Facebook’s shares were down nearly four per cent at $89.25 (£58.83) shortly after the site went offline last night.”
It’s musical break time. R: Yes. Hardwired logic. Machine language L: Connection deprived by request, request.
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