Facebook: All Your Resources Belong to Us!

Sam Diaz has highlighted a common occurrence that took place over this past weekend, Facebook applications not responding as expected. None of these sites, not even The Washington Post was ready for the server overload that they experienced from the massive influx of users. The Washington Post experience 5-10 users per second while 30 Boxes added over 6,000 users on Sunday alone. This sounds oddly familiar like the Digg effect except it continues for days if not weeks on end.