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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
by mbStavola 5y ago
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.
- davide_v 5y ago"only a few hours" for Facebook is literally billions.
- tlrobinson 5y agoOnly $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-instagram-whatsapp-not-working-stock/ https://fortune.com/2021/10/04/facebook-outage-cost-revenue-... 2. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/FB:NASDAQ https://www.google.com/finance/quote/FB:NASDAQ
- rytill 5y agoYou mean $945B?
- TAForObvReasons 5y agoAt 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
- toper-centage 5y agoBut 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
- xienze 5y ago> 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.
- threevox 5y agoAt 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