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Damn, nothing good ever lasts huh?

Even if it was only a few hours things have significantly improved in my life in the period it went down. Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives.

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"only a few hours" for Facebook is literally billions.

Only $13.3 million per hour in revenue [1], but about $45 billion in market cap today [2].

1. https://fortune.com/2021/10/04/facebook-outage-cost-revenue-...

2. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/FB:NASDAQ

You mean $945B?

At close, market cap was approximately 920B and the stock was down about 5%. The change in market cap is therefore about 920B * (1 / 0.95 - 1) ~ 48B

But 6 hours for Facebook is proportionally the same as 6 hours to anyone. If 6 hours is a billion to them, they still made 3 billion

> Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives.

They probably likewise felt similar relief that they didn’t receive “Republicans bad” spam from their relatives during this time period.

At risk of continuing the devolution of this thread, anti-vax != "Republicans bad". Disingenuous false equivalence. One is the pinnacle of dangerous, malicious misinformation and the other is just a political opinion held by some that is at worst reductionistic

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