Downtime

Foursquare’s 11 Hour Downtime Is Unacceptable

by Jeff Weisbein October 5, 2010
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I’m going to come straight out and say it.  Foursquare’s 11-hour downtime fiasco in completely unacceptable.  And you know what?  It seems Foursquare agrees.  According to their blog post which explains the downtime, they state, “All told, we were down for about 11 hours, which is unacceptably long.” Foursquare is currently in a very hot [...]

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Steve Jobs Is Responsible For Facebook’s Downtime

by Jeff Weisbein September 26, 2010
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Earlier this week Forbes announced that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has passed Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Forbes’ richest people list.  Obviously, this upset Steve very much and apparently he used his epic powers to bring down Facebook on Thursday for several hours.  I’ve been told from several sources that the picture below represents how [...]

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Why I’m Fed Up With Facebook

by Mike Mansell September 26, 2010
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As a long-time Facebook user, I have become more and more frustrated and fed-up with the social networking site over the the last few weeks. This frustration is being fueled by numerous instabilities and vulnerabilities on Facebook, some of which Facebook doesn’t even appear to be addressing. As you likely know, Facebook was the subject [...]

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Google Explains The Downtime

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009
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As I posted about earlier, Google experienced a bit of downtime and slowdowns mainly throughout the United States. Below is a excerpt from the Google blog explaining what exactly happened to bring about this occurrence. Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an [...]

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Google Experiences Downtime

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009
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Earlier today, Google experienced what seemed to be outages (downtime) in various locations around the world.  Most of the outages appeared to take place in the United States, however, there were also reports of downtime in some European countries too. While this is not the first time (or the last) Google has experienced downtime (or [...]

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Twitter Is Down … Again

by Jeff Weisbein May 20, 2008
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Twitter has become within the past week an extremely unstable and unusable site. A site, that I rely on to push updates on my own projects. Yesterday afternoon, Twitter announced that it would be down for maintenance starting at Midnight Pacific Time (PST). Shortly thereafter I noticed the site was extremely slow (which was nothing [...]

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