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Probably because an entertainment website going down isn't particularly newsworthy.

It's Facebook. The entire world is practically on the site. So yeah, it is newsworthy.

What will tomorrow's headlines be? "Popular, non critical website unavailable for several minutes"?

How many startups talked about here use Facebook as a login option? I'd assume that makes their service unavailable for a non-trivial number of users.

Good point. I suppose that's a valuable lesson in relying on third parties for critical functionality.

Yeah, FB being down is certainly news, and tech news as well.

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