Network effects July 2020

摘要

The first tweet came from Aarhus at two seconds after midnight, European summer time, on July 1st 2020. "Hottest night of the year and Instagram is down. Now what do I do with this?" It carried a striking picture, taken a couple of hours earlier, of the fiery Scandinavian sun setting over the Jutland peninsula. Then came another, a thousand, a million complaints: "Is Facebook down?" "Messenger's not loading." "What's up with WhatsApp?"