Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by dansingerman on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:13PM (#1721203)

As an aside I notice that 'Facebook' is not a trending topic on Twitter. Seems the term must be blacklisted in some way along with all the swears and other undesirable terms.

Which seems a bit underhand by Twitter.

Edit: I notice that 'Facebook isnt working' has appeared now. I've blogged about this issue here: http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/1174729229/twitter-mostly-... (if anyone cares)

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by bl4k on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:21PM (#1721247)

during one of the twitter hacks the blacklist application was accessed and facebook was on the list (as was google and a bunch of other brand names)

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by rryyan on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:29PM (#1721295)

I'm curious about this and Googling failed me, do you have a link?

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by bl4k on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:32PM (#1721311)

I took a screenshot on my other machine - I will upload it when I am on there next

There were hundreds of items on the list

(Edit: here is this link for now: http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-tw...

I am sure that I saved the entire page of blacklisted words)

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by sssparkkk on Friday September 24, 2010 @07:12AM (#1723307)

That screenshot shows which of the current (more or less I guess) topics need to be blacklisted. Not which words are always blacklisted.

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by Astro9k on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:29PM (#1721298)

Wow. So twitter censors disparaging comments about companies? Wow.

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by seldo on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:37PM (#1721328)

More likely that terms that are continuously mentioned in huge numbers (and therefore don't count as "trending") are omitted.

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by _delirium on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:58PM (#1721423)

There are more principled ways to do that than a blacklist, though, like looking at current frequency compared to typical frequency. That way even something commonly mentioned could still genuinely be trending if it gets mentioned much more than usual on a particular day.

(It's possible there are scale-related reasons that make this infeasible, though.)

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by smackfu on Thursday September 23, 2010 @05:19PM (#1721508)

Just not tracking the frequency of the most common words that will never be in the trending topics is probably a big performance win. I'm sure there is an additional blacklist that includes stuff like "and" and "the".

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by bruceboughton on Thursday September 23, 2010 @08:24PM (#1722114)

You know you've made it when your brand name is a stopword.

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by StavrosK on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:45PM (#1721366)

No, it just prevents comment from trending. Not just disparaging comments, all comments, it seems.

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by fizx on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:46PM (#1721370)

Trending topics: Mono Jojoy , Facebook Isnt Working , Bishop Eddie , Internal Server ,

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by jonknee on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:37PM (#1721333)

I see "Facebook down again" trending and earlier saw "Facebook down".

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by smackfu on Thursday September 23, 2010 @05:16PM (#1721497)

Before, two of the trending topics were "Facebooks" and "isnt working".

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by _e_ on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:35PM (#1721322)

Well looks like someone is having fun...

http://twitpic.com/1yqrwc

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