Facebook’s downtime
This is a case of what was not really reported at all. Although Twitter was afire with the Facebook problems yesterday, the mainstream press in Australia seemed to just ignore it. A system outage affects 500 million users worldwide and this is not news? Does that strike anyone other than me as strange?
Interestingly, the downtime was while the USA sleeps. I have visual images of the guy or gal who was on call just not waking up when the pager beeped (correction – server sent text message) alerting a server problem. I know, not an exciting visual – but I’m an IT person, so forgive me! Actually – it reminds me of a time years ago when I was at a party. One of our friends was a Channel 7 cinematographer and carried a pager (it was in the days before text messages). Having a wonderful time, he threw his pager in a glass of beer – to ensure he wouldn’t get called out!
I managed to find one report in the press. I expected there may have been some coverage today, explaining the cause of the massive outage that lasted some 6 or more hours. Nothing I could find. Admittedly I didn’t search to the nth degree – I expected something obvious. Not a peep.
Very interesting……………..
Quizzically Musing 
I thought I was the only one that noticed it because you’re right – there was no coverage of the outage! But then it was very weird that I noticed it at all because I’m not on facebook, but I had watched “the Social Network” that day and decided on a whim to go check it out. I thought I was going mad….because in the movie – facebook is never allowed to “go down”!!!! hmmm….
Lily Wright
January 4, 2011 at 7:29 am
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I intend to! There still has not been any media coverage. hmmmmmmmmmm indeed!
Team Oyeniyi
January 4, 2011 at 7:48 am