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"(they appear to have stopped on Friday)"

For anyone that knows anything about facebook development. We know that facebook releases on Fridays. Every Friday. This means its a feature and not an error.

It will take a little time for the updates to be released world wide as the system engineers release to users in increments. So because some people see it and others don't is understandable.

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Hey - My name is Blake Ross and I'm a director of product at Facebook. Your statement is wrong. Facebook pushes code every day of the week, and our big weekly push is on Tuesday.

Could it be that your CDN and caching will refresh on Friday?

Can you tell us if this is a deliberate move by Facebook to sensor such links? Do you intend to further sensor the spread of google+ ?

Since when do legitimate questions get downvoted ? Etiquette suggests that we only ask questions that we would if the person was in the room. These are good questions. Why the downvotes?

From the guidelines: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

Maybe a lot of FB employees on here.

Considering the comment "As a director of product at Facebook can you tell us whether FB is blocking Google Plus links for any users intentionally?" posted a minute later isn't being voted down, the hidden voting bloc might be spelling pedants.

As a director of product at Facebook can you tell us whether FB is blocking Google Plus links for any users intentionally?

To supplement what Blake said, I remember watching this awesome video about Push at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977

They push changes daily, and if anything, according to the video, they say they stay away from major pushes on Friday because weekend traffic is significantly lower and some problems may not manifest under the reduced load before it hits the fan on Monday.

Even if your Friday theory was the case, it means absolutely nothing. Errors/bugs don't normally just jump up out of nowhere, they come from an issue in the coding, so naturally new bugs are likely to be noticed shortly after new updates go live on a site as well as new features.

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