![]() ![]() His net worth is now less than Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and is the fifth wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg. The slide in Facebook stock weighed on CEO Mark Zuckerberg's net worth, which dropped to $121.6 billion. ![]() (Shares of Twitter and Snap were both off more than 5%.) Shares in the social network dropped nearly 5% to $326.23 per share amid a broad selloff in social media stocks. The outlets then used those numbers to calculate revenue loss based on how long the outage has lasted. Facebook makes roughly $319.6 million per day in revenue, $13.3 million per hour, $220,000 per minute, and $3,700 per second. The two publications calculated the lost revenue by using the roughly $29 billion the company reported in its second-quarter earnings. The outage cost Facebook an estimated $60 million in forgone revenue as of 1 p.m. Sorry about that! □- Twitter Support October 4, 2021 Some of you may have had an issue seeing replies and DMs as a result. We prepare for these moments, but today things didn’t go exactly as planned. Sometimes more people than usual use Twitter. Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said in a tweet that it felt like a " snow day." In addition to Facebook's services and apps being down, some of the company's internal tools were also reportedly impacted by the outage. With those servers offline, typing "" in a browser or using the app to try to reach Facebook failed. Specifically, the updates cut off network routes to Facebook's DNS servers. PT, Cloudflare detected a flurry of unusual updates from Facebook describing changes to how BGP should handle Facebook's part of the network. The Domain Name System (DNS) translates human comprehensible network names like into the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that actually are used to address and route data across the internet. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) helps establish the best way to send data hopping from one device to another until it reaches its final destination. ![]() Facebook's problem involved a combination of two fundamental internet technologies, BGP and DNS, both instrumental to helping computing devices to connect across the network. ![]()
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