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Re: Facebook down!! Alert!


From: Matt Baldwin <baldwinmathew () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:06:51 -0700

I would imagine more businesses benefit from a FB outage in terms of a
tick up in productivity versus businesses harmed by a FB outage, e.g.
Zygna.  So, net net a FB outage could be seen as a positive thing in
the course of a work day.

-matt

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM, david raistrick <drais () icantclick org> wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Bret Clark wrote:

I have to agree on this as well. I can understand when a service provider
is


you've forgotten that facebook (and indeed twitter too) are service
providers that provide business-critical services.

just because you don't want to play facebook games doesn't make a facebook
outage any less operationally relevant than, say, an akamai or limelight
outage.





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