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A self-described Burmese

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:33:10 +0000

In reply to Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

A self-described Burmese-American in NYC to Facebook Engineering:

fb sucks b/c you employ woke progressives from california
— Make Burma Great Again! (@Down_W_Tatmadaw) October 6, 2021

Goes with Antonio's comment:

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:38:49 +0000

In reply to Just as the NYT prophecies

Goes with Antonio's comment:

One interesting insight from FB whistleblower @FrancesHaugen_’s interview last night was her relaying a comment from an EU politician about how optimizing for Facebook’s algorithms was causing political leaders to take more partisan positions. That’s the populist feedback loop.
— Kate Starbird (@katestarbird) October 4, 2021

Burn baby burn. Is this Fight

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:19:08 +0000

In reply to Now Gmail, TikTok and

Burn baby burn. Is this Fight Club?

He's right, one of the things

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:01:07 +0000

In reply to Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

He's right, one of the things that's neat about Twitter is the tongue-in-cheek stuff by the individuals behind big corporate accounts (institutional accounts too-NJ.gov's twitter account comes to mind)

LMFAOOOOO I LOVE TWITTER #InternetShutDown pic.twitter.com/aW6VXkGphR
— ً (@TYRISPRINT) October 4, 2021

In a weird way he surely didn't mean, it verifies the famous Mitt Romney line that corporations are people too, my friend.

Now Gmail, TikTok and

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:50:52 +0000

In reply to Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

Now Gmail, TikTok and Snapchat users complain apps are slowing down#InternetShutdown #Gmail #TikTok #Snapchat https://t.co/p7RVhR9SFb
— The Independent (@Independent) October 4, 2021

QUICK DOWNLOAD OR PRINT WHAT YOU WANT TO READ cause it's starting to look like the whole shebang is going to fall down!

Apparently far from amusing

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:15:15 +0000

In reply to Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

Apparently far from amusing to a lot of small businesses around the world:

Whatsapp down. So many of Brazilian small biz is built up on it as means to facilitate comms with consumers. Now it's all down. Most folks here don't even keep contacts in their phones, just the app and they can't use it. Many areas are in post disaster and this makes it worse.
— Blood Hawk | Pfizer /2 (@BloodHawk5) October 4, 2021

What is the current definition of a utility anyways?

his points 19 and 20 are fun

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:33:33 +0000

In reply to Apparently this guy

his points 19 and 20 are fun schadenfreude, especially for those who have had Kafka-like experiences with technology:

19/ But here's the FUN part: it's not just Facebook's DNS that's failed, but their internal network as well. Reports are that employees are locked out of their own buildings.https://t.co/af4jhd6ecY
— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen (@ErrataRob) October 4, 2021

20/ You can imagine right now that employees are no applying sledge hammers to concrete walls to make a hole so they can get into the server rooms to fix the BGP problem, because their badges don't work.
— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen (@ErrataRob) October 4, 2021

Apparently this guy

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:27:12 +0000

In reply to Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

Apparently this guy understands what's going on and in this thread is trying to techsplain for normal people. (Not that I care that much about this incident, as I hardly use any of their apps--but keeping in mind a lot of sophisticados use Instagram, so not just the Facebook masses are affected this time. And it could happen with others.)

1/n OK, let me explain what's going on with the Facebook right now.

First, let's talk "routing". The Internet is a mesh of routers that forward packets. Packets go from source through a series of routers until they reach their destination.
— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen (@ErrataRob) October 4, 2021

https://t.co/EK6mhjZuhg pic

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:09:19 +0000

In reply to Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

https://t.co/EK6mhjZuhg pic.twitter.com/iGxWiypALL
— Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) October 4, 2021

Just as the NYT prophecies

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:51:00 +0000

In reply to Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

Just as the NYT prophecies foretold....https://t.co/RnbYPR0zM0
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) October 4, 2021

"Dogs and cats began lying down together in harmony, people of opposing political parties emerged from their homes and talked to each other like rational human beings, and multiple antifa and white supremacist groups were seen laying down their arms."
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) October 4, 2021

Oops.

"At publishing time, the utopia had begun to collapse as people discovered Twitter was still functioning."
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) October 4, 2021