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What exactly can I do with Facebook mobile and how can I do it?

What can I do if I want to post a status on my Facebook wall exactly at 12:12:12 on 12/12/2012?

  • Clarifications: 1. Time 12:12:12 is as per UTC. 2. "post a status" means it should be visible to anybody looking at my timeline. Assumptions: 1. All the people watching your wall are connected to the internet and their OS clocks are synchronized with UTC Possible solution at a very high level: 1. Calculate the round trip time it takes for a request from your machine to www[dot]facebook[dot]com 2. Calculate the API latency for your status to be updated. (Possibly calculated by simulating this action using openGraph API) 3. Since facebook pages update using event based mechanism, we need to figure out the time taken from status persisting in the database to it showing on the timeline. (Can't figure out how to calculate) 4. Now send your request at x sec. before 12:12:12 where x is calculated from the above scenarios. Complications: 1. Facebook servers might be following the eventual consistency model, hence, consistency across all the servers cannot be guaranteed fine grained upto level of seconds. So, possibly some friends might see the status at different times in their timelines.

  • Answer:

    Facebook doesn't show exact seconds value in the time next to your status. So just goto your timeline and post a status at that particular minute.

Akash Kothawale at Quora Visit the source

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Post a status per second, and make these only visible to you. Choose the one that worked, and make it visible to everyone. Like Akash said, Facebook doesn't display the seconds. But you can get it by multiplying the data-utime attribute (from the html) by 1000 to get the number of seconds since midnight on Jan 1, 1970.

Sara Itani

On December 12, 2012, wait until it's 12:00. Prepare two laptops, and post repeatedly and furiously for the duration of 30 minutes. Then, delete everyone of them except the one that hit at exactly 12:12:12. If you deleted that one by mistake as well, weep silently and shed a single tear.

Griffith Chen

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