The great Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp shutdown
After Wednesday's worldwide social media shutdown, users made their way to Twitter to make sure that the news was legit.
Online monitoring service DownDetector reported that the outage began at around 1200 GMT on Wednesday and affected Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
According to DownDetector, thousands of users around the world were reporting outages, with Europe and North America most impacted. Individual users and businesses were affected.
#Facebookdown and #Instagramdown trended on Twitter as users around the world reported these apps were not functioning.
As always, Tweeps found the funny side of an otherwise serious situation.
Read some of their comments below:
the way twitter remains unbothered everytime whatsapp, fb & ig down. twitter is that bitch.#WhatsAppDown#instagramdown#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/kfTKOKue8I
— ً (@gwolbby) July 4, 2019
This is Twitter users when Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp is Down #instagramdown #WhatsAppDown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/3XKapghtOU
— Atul Shokeen (@AtulShokeen2) July 3, 2019
How humbling must it be for Facebook and Instagram to have to slide over to Twitter to let everyone know they are down? #facebookdown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/ge0Wjy47D8
— Chadwick M. Fischer (@Fischwick) July 3, 2019
Facebook: Down
— Ceren (@CerenNurKayaa) July 3, 2019
Instagram: Down
Whatsapp: Down
Logging into Twitter like: 🤣🤣 #WhatsApp #instagramdown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/ycsNd9l5Jb
What did you do when your social media went dark?