Daily Podcast (10.05.21)
WMMR's Preston & Steve Daily Podcast
93.3 WMMR
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 181 minutes
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Summary
We chat with Cardinal Copia, Fonzie & Social Media Stops Working
On this episode:
News (00:00:00)
Entertainment Report (00:12:41)
Oh No! Social Media Went Down (00:44:05)
Bizarre Files (01:14:13)
City Beat (01:23:16)
Tobias Forge Zooms In (01:48:20)
Henry Winkler Checks In & Bizarre Files (02:21:27)
Hollywood Trash & Music News (02:40:31)
Wrap Up (02:52:39)
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| 0:00.0 | 93-3-WMR Audio on Demand presents the Preston and Steve show podcast. And now, Preston and Steve's news |
| 0:10.9 | update with Kathy Romano. Today is Tuesday, October 5th. Good morning. Kathy. Good morning in the news this |
| 0:17.1 | morning. Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive |
| 0:21.3 | global outage plunged the service and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for |
| 0:26.3 | hours. Facebook said late Monday that the root of the cause of this outage was a faulty configuration |
| 0:31.7 | change and that there is no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of the outage. |
| 0:36.7 | The company apologized. That means user data was compromised. I result of the outage. The company apologizes. |
| 0:37.6 | That means user data was compromised. I also, I'm sorry to interrupt, I love the use of the word chaos. I had no idea that any of this even happened yesterday. Speaking to truth, we have a conference call at 6 o'clock, and I brought it up. You didn't know that time? I didn't know either. You said it was down and I pulled it up while we were on the phone. |
| 0:55.9 | And sure enough on Instagram it |
| 0:57.2 | said can't refresh or whatever. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.2 | So the entire one person's chaos is another person's restful day. |
| 1:04.1 | I will say though, I mean people like even just on fall activities like some of these |
| 1:08.7 | businesses, some of these smaller businesses use Instagram Instagram and use social media as a, like, in exchange for a website and are conducting business through. Absolutely, yeah. But in the grand scheme of things, I think it lasted seven hours, you know? I mean, that's seven hours. Do you want to know how much Zucker, uh, lost a Zuckerberg? Yeah, Zuckaberg. Yeah, lost a billion per hour. |
| 1:28.9 | Really? |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | It ended up bouncing back, but yeah, the shares went way down. |
| 1:33.3 | And a bunch of people, I'm sure you have it, went over and signed up with other messenger services, like millions. |
| 1:38.6 | So, yeah. |
| 1:39.0 | So, Kathy, it was Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger all went down. |
| 1:43.3 | But you're right. |
| 1:43.7 | So many people rely on, it's weird when someone directs me to a to a business and it's just their Facebook |
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