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Tag Archives: Famous Bugs

Google Bug

Famous Bugs: The Bug That Sold Google

App DevBy Instabug TeamAugust 9, 2016

Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the Google bug that outsmarted one of the smartest companies on the planet. It’s no secret that google.com is the most valuable domain in the world. For one minute in September of 2015, it belonged to one lucky man named Sanmay…

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PayPal Bug

Famous Bugs: PayPal Bug Creates World’s First Quadrillionaire

App DevBy Instabug TeamAugust 2, 2016

Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the PayPal bug that we really wish happened to us. When Chris Reynolds opened his PayPal e-mail statement for June 2013, he realized something wasn’t right. The Pennsylvania PR executive’s balance blew up to an incomprehensible $92,233,720,368,547,800. For everyone out there…

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Facebook Bug

Famous Bugs: The Facebook Bug That Tells You How Popular You Really Are

App DevBy Instabug TeamJuly 27, 2016

Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the Facebook bug that we’re (maybe) thankful isn’t an actual feature. If you’re human, you’ve wondered how many people really see your posts on Facebook. Well, thanks to a bug in Facebook’s mobile app last year, for a brief moment of brutal honesty,…

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Pokemon Go

Famous Bugs: Things No One Noticed While Catching Bulbasaur

App DevBy Yasmine HelmyJuly 16, 2016

With massive downloads surpassing Tinder and Twitter, it’s as if all hell broke loose when Pokémon Go was unleashed to the public. It literally took seconds to spark the flame of worldwide mayhem, where almost everyone, except me and some rare few, is playing Pokémon Go like there’s no tomorrow. Our office had around 10 Pokemons and I can’t even begin…

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Famous Bugs IBM Deep Blue Bug

Famous Bugs: A Random Bug Defeats a Chess Grandmaster

App DevBy Instabug TeamJune 22, 2016

Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! We hope you get a serious laugh out of other people’s pains that came before us. In this post, we’Il explain the fascinating history of the IBM Deep Blue bug. In May of 1997, IBM’s chess-playing computer Deep Blue challenged the World Champion of Chess, Russian…

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YouTube Bug

Famous Bugs: The Bug That Almost Broke YouTube

App DevBy Instabug TeamMay 25, 2016

This YouTube bug is the first in a series of famous bugs — the villains of the developer world — that broke the Internet, or almost did, even if it was for only a few seconds. When YouTube was first launched, nobody, not even the YouTube guys, thought a video would ever be watched two billion times. To…

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