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As a former founder and CEO of a Social Network that traded on the New York Stock Exchange (Quepasa/MeetMe..owns hi5, Skout, Tagged, others) I can tell you, it is extremely strange for Facebook to just "go offline" for hours at a time. There's no reason for it. Especially at this
stage of maturity for the business. Even small tech startups are built with redundancies; in the worst case, if there's a catastrophic error or tech problem, the development team can "revert" back to the last working version of code within a matter of minutes. Why Facebook and
Whatsapp have been offline for hours at a time today is something that doesn't make sense. They have tens of thousands of employees at their disposal to keep things working. When I exited as CEO of our Social Network we had about 50 million users. Not as big as Facebook but
still enough to be one of the top Social Networks in the country, especially for our market demographic. At that time there was nothing that would have kept us offline for more than about twenty minutes even in a worst case. Our team was a few hundred compares to Facebook's
thousands of workers. So, I don't get it. It's really not about complexity of the source code, either. They are running a mature development team at this stage that builds things to specifications with version controls. They have fallback procedures in place. If there are any
other technical founders here I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. I don't buy the "official narrative" for a minute. There's no way it's a DDOS attack. Facebook has more than enough anti-ddos infrastructure in place and they're still serving error pages so it's not that.
