Twitter over capacity. Why am I not surprised reading this? I mean it was evident given that the authorities in Pakistan had banned access to the social network owing to the group that promotes drawing cartoons of the Prophet [PBUH]. Its obvious that people, who find it impossible to resist the departure from Facebook have almost immediately switched to Twitter to gossip more about it.
Alright it might be a bit of exaggeration here and Twitter might be facing general problems, the Fail Whale which was a regular feature in the past. What makes me think that the current ban is a reason for this, is the Fail Whale has appeared after quite a while and had been missing this for ages now. I am not sure what number of users on Facebook from Pakistan but if this ban is a reason for Twitter downtime, I am guessing the number must be pretty high, otherwise Twitter must now be quite capable of handling a bit of surge in the users.
Lets just wait and see if this issue is independent of the events that have taken place during the day or not. In the mean time, if anyone can let me know the number of users on Facebook from Pakistan, I would really appreciate it.
not sure i guess around 45 million users use facebook from pakistan its just a begning i think muslims from all around the will stop using facebook and alternative to facebook is twitter
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Sardar Mohkim Khan Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Wow – I doubt those figures because that’s roughly a 10% of Facebook population.. Could you please share the source of this news [if you happen to have it]. Thanks though
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i think around a million users.
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The number is 2,359,620
the source: http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/PK/
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Well i am from Pakistan and i think almost 50 million people use Facebook in Pakistan………and that is 25 percent of Pakistan’s population………
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I am from Pakistan and I have happily deactivated my account….
And its my resolution not to use facebook again until it removes the page and apologizes. I request all muslim brothers and sisters beyond the geographic boundaries of Pakistan to also stop using facebook
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Erum Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Well I have the utmost respect for the Holy Prophet (SAWS) but I do not
condone the ban on facebook by the narrow-minded pakistan government. What
will Pakistan achieve from doing this. I think pakistan should stop tarnishing
the name of islam and using islam as an excuse to vent its emotions!
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Yazz Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 2:38 am
Drone attacks ok, carricatures ok, can you please tell me how you defend your values? After all so much request submitted to facebook by users over this issue and it laziness bring it all on them. It ia good decision to stop facebook in Pakistan. If it had responded on time it would have never faced such a blow. They voilated their own term of service, so what about such a company. Don’t bring your habits into this matter, it is a matter of right and wrong. Since they themselves say that they dont encourage such groups then they should follow it too. The decision is not on facebook but the obvious violation of their terms and constitution of Pakistan. You know what terms of service and constitution means ? If yes, then it is not a matter to discuss then. Read constitution of Pakistan to have your answers. Or just roam around and add distracted values to the values of Islam
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Erum Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 3:18 am
yazz, ok I saw the pics and there were blasphemous and the act cannot be condoned. I do follow the correct values of the religion for I am a muslim myslef. I have read the constitution and what it says – and it says a lot of other things too dude. We should first correct ourselves as muslims and be united and only then we may have the right to say something. Otherwise, we will just be beating about the bush and the world will want to pay any attention to us as it is doing now. I know what my fellow pakistanis stand for. So, spare me the insulting remarks buddy and be happy. Cheers!
arif Reply:
May 21st, 2010 at 11:26 pm
hey u don’t know what is what and u r saying this type of things. this is our problem don’t say like that plz say to ur friends and coliques.
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Erum Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:03 am
I am merely giving my opinion. Every opinion, no matter how different it may be fom the other person is to be respected – thatz what free society and democracy stands for – freedom of expression, religion etc. I do have respect for the greatest being but this is something I would rather not comment on for it is a very sensitive issue. plus, whe we muslims do bad things to our own people, friends and colleagues, where does the respect for the Prophet Mohd (PBUH) go then? Do you think the sins we commit, do you think that is in accordance with the Koran and the sunnah? Why do you not react when the govt and the people act against the Prophet’s wishes.Are we not then doing something against the Prophet when we oppress the others, and unjustly treat them to please our superiors, the rich and the clergy! Is that love for the Prophet? Why is it that only when the non-muslims say something against o Prophet that only then do we tend to realize that blasphemy has been committed. Not following the Prophet’s orders and sunnah is also blasphemy. So spare me your self-righteousness and let me think n my ow without anyone’s meddlesome behavior. First try to look at your own faults then tell others that they are wrong. That is the real jihad. Read islamic literature. Itz full of this information.
Jawad Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 10:46 am
same here
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yazz Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Erum Sis;
I highly appreciate your impartial investigation of this issue. Ya, the constitution does say a lot of things but this act doesn’t only violate the constitution of Islam also. Though I agree that Muslims are not complying fully to what they are been taught but that doesn’t mean their values are derived from their actions. Their values are derived from teachings if Prophet not their action. We all see that muslims have deviated alot from the teachings of Islam.
Besides Muhammad is not a concerned person for those who doesn’t follow him, does it gives them right to make fun of him. And particularly in scenario when such a prior act has bloody consequences and the cost was app; 100 muslim lives. Still they do it again and again. Killing is not important than they entertain their-selves with such kinds of activity. Holocaust page was instantly removed from Facebook face when it was reported because it was offensive to a particular group (Jews) but not this one which was reported by 56000 or probably more. This is the laziness of facebook or to say their one-sided behavior.
Thanks;
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Erum Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 am
Yazz, to this I can only say onething – to do something against a stronger powe, first make yourself stronger and then you have the power to say and do omething. At this time, muslims are weak, hell, they are not even united and try to bite at each other in whatever way they can. We muslims should try to work on improving ourselves, improve our technology, work on the betterment of the ummah. Only then can we do something. Before that itz all just a babble to the stronger forces. This is the idea. Right now, muslims are way behind in every field, our politicians and governments go country to contry asking for aid. Do you think the west and the non-muslims will take us seriously. There is a sayng – “beggars cannot be choosers.” This is our condition right now. So we should remin quiet at this time and work on ourselves first and then and only then should we retaliate and that too in a diplomatic way. We have a lot of work before us! We just don’t know how to play! learn the rules of the game first. I hope you see my point now! Cheers!
Haseeb Minhas Reply:
May 24th, 2010 at 11:30 am
http://www.muslims-unite.com is an alternative that has been recently been launched.
The idea behind it is really simple, it basically a centeral hub for users to share their ideas, opinions and learn more about the muslim culture.
The social network has a unique design and has all the features that facebook has plus more. Check it out.
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I am agree with poster. I and all of my friends( 10) have joined twitter, and I know people are joining twitter. You will see many people will move from facebook to twiter, I and my 10 frinds already have moooved.
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The total number of facebook users in Pakistan is about 2.5 million.
http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/PK/
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We as muslims have the deepest respect for the holy Prophet but I believe that God Himself will take care of the matter in hand! Are the other muslim countries following suit?
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Come on people. every voice counts. let us show we are united. lets boycott facebook and any other source that is promoting blasphemy against Islam.
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Faraz Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 4:18 am
Muslims brother over the boundaries, be unit and deactivate your account on facebook
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Pakistan Reply:
May 21st, 2010 at 2:51 am
faraz i totaly agree with you!! we all should unit and deactivate accounts from facebook!!
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I don’t think that twitter can ever replace Facebook.
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Its not how much it will hurt facebook management but the main idea behind this act of comndemnation is to give FB a wake up call.
Pls allow me to highlight the double standards of FB. My cousin, in retaliation, not knowing the sigmificance of JESUS uploaded a pic of him naked on the same page and left a comment ‘ your jesus didn’t have a father’
Its wrong to do that since Jesus is Hazrat Eissa as per our religion. The facebook administration immediatly and swiftly acted fast to delete his uploaded pic, comments and inturn gave him a warning to shut his account down.
Now where is the freedom of speech.
I would recommend and urge all the muslims to acquire a twitter account and slowly migrate from facebook
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plz join me on twitter
FARANGI123
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AND NOW “twitter” HAS THE SAME MESSAGE,,
‘This Site is Restricted’.
AND THE ADDRESS BAR CHANTS,,
‘http://www.twitter.com/Access Denied.
NOW WHO’S NEXT?
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but why twitter??
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I deactivatd my account cause I love my prophet more than facebook.
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to all those who ‘deactivated’ their facebook accounts…why didnt you ‘delete’ your accounts altogether? if you’re protesting against the service and standing up for something, then completely delete yourselves from facebook.
or are you guys waiting for the govt to lift the ban, so u can easily retrieve your accounts and go back to your online social lives??? cant get over the addiction, eh?
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http://www.muslims-unite.com is another alternative that has been recently been launched.
The idea behind it is really simple, it basically a centeral hub for users to share their ideas, opinions and learn more about the muslim culture.
The social network has a unique design and has all the features that facebook has plus more. Check it out.
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bad news for pakistan people..
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