What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by joncrane on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:10PM (#28751448)

I had no idea about the 60 Minutes thing until people started mentioning it in response to this outage.

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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by this_user on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:52PM (#28751936)

Most people outside of the US don't even know what "60 Minutes" is. Even fewer have heard about that report. And even fewer care. But everyone has now heard about the outage. This would be the worst possible way of trying to stop the spread of the story.

The more likely scenario is that this was the final straw for some disgruntled employee who decided to pull the plug on the entire thing.

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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by indianpianist on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:40PM (#28753188)

> Most people outside of the US don't even know what "60 Minutes" is.

I live in Australia. 60 Minutes exists here as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes_(Australian_TV_prog...

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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by hansel_der on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:47AM (#28756864)

arguing on the the basis of a strong cultural differentiation between the us and aus might not work as well as you think.

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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by carbonx on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:18PM (#28751547)

Agree. I just did a quick check and 60 Minutes averages around 10 million viewers. It's not like in 1977 when something 20%+ of the US population was watching that show.

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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by savoytruffle on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:35PM (#28751743)

It is pretty well available — and quickly — via piracy means, which I have always thought interesting for its somewhat esoteric content.

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