“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by tracker1 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:30PM (#10132238)

In all fairness, this is the resources and development access of a single organization though...

I'm consistently amazed at how well the likes of FB, Google/Youtube, AWS and Netflix actually work by those organizations. Yes there is the occasional down time where things are partially down... just the same that they manage to handle the sheer volume of traffic is truly impressive. Most businesses don't really need more than what a large co-located server offers in compute and storage...

To create a system that services requests from hundreds of millions of simultaneous users throughout the world is genuinely impressive.

Of course it does have its' cracks... The mobile browser interface is more and more gimped as time passes, and the comments for posts that don't have hundreds of replies is equally borked (don't see all replies, or your own half the time). "Eventually Consistent" has it's price... but the reward is handling hundreds of millions of users at one time.

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by motti_s on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:02PM (#10132060)

Not necessarily, Facebook has mobile clients.

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by benwerd on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:03PM (#10132075)

I admit to loosely using the "mobile clients are specialist browsers" line of thinking here. Facebook definitely uses links and HTTP.

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by renownedmedia on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:03PM (#10132077)

Facebook mobile clients don't use the Internet?

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by cryptoz on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:09PM (#10132117)

The web is not the same as the Internet, though. The web is an open platform built on open protocols on top of the Internet.

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by StavrosK on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:20PM (#10132180)

Interesting question: What is the Web? HTTP, or HTTP+HTML? Facebook mobile clients use HTTP, so are they using the web?

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by andrepd on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:41PM (#10132304)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by StavrosK on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:47PM (#10132340)

Huh, this Wikipedia site is pretty nifty, I didn't know I could look stuff up on it, thanks!

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by andrepd on Friday August 28, 2015 @01:39PM (#10136798)

You're welcome!

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by tedunangst on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:50PM (#10132362)

So.... Does the Facebook mobile client count as using the web?

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by andrepd on Friday August 28, 2015 @01:39PM (#10136812)

By the definition, yes, though I can't say how FB themselves count it.

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by myth_buster on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:59PM (#10132417)

I think they are coming from the web vs native app frame.

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by tbomb on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:03PM (#10132073)

It's still over the internet, right?

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by alanh on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:59PM (#10132418)

Of course, but web ≠ internet.

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by r0m4n0 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @06:24PM (#10132545)

Probably closer to a Venn diagram where the internet encompasses the web and more. SMTP, FTP etc. Splitting hairs now

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by austenallred on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:42PM (#10132310)

It looks like mobile-only is 44% of FB use (FB doesn't distinguish between app vs. Internet), and 87% of FB users are on mobile.

Source: https://beta.grasswire.com/story/177/facebook

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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by rokhayakebe on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:51PM (#10132371)

Well, you should know to many FB is their internet.

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