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Via Claycord
Facebook and Instagram were down for a brief period of time on Monday, and this was enough to send some people into a panic.
The local 911 dispatcher in the East Bay area of California told the Claycord blog that they received 5 different calls from people complaining about the outage.
“Our lines are [sic] dedicated to handle life and death calls, and even though Facebook is important to a lot of people, it’s not a matter of life and death when it stops working,” the dispatcher said. “One caller even called back to tell me I was being rude because I told her it wasn’t a life threatening emergency.”
The hacker group Lizard Squad initially claimed responsibility for the outage, but Facebook later issued a statement denying the group’s involvement.
“Earlier today many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram,” they said. “This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.”
Fortunately it only lasted an hour, so these 5 terrible people were able to quickly get back to posting selfies, babies and gross food pictures. PHEW.
Via Demy de Zeeuw
Once the moment has passed feel free to be jealous or envious that you don't run a giant Instagram Futbol/Soccer fan account and have this first-world problem. Or not.
Where were you when Ryan Reynolds needed you the most?
A photo from Taylor Swift's 4th of July party has been circling around the internet and its not because T-Swift and Tom Hiddleston. It's because Ryan Reynolds is in pain... serious pain.
Well, the internet understands Ryan's pain of being surrounded by the Swiddleston cuddlefest and went to Twitter to help.
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Via Instagram
The new app, released today, uses photographic algorithms that tie in with the iPhone's own gyroscope to stabilize videos as you take them. The result is cool time lapse footage like you see above. Currently an Android version is in the work as well.
