As Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffer global outage, Twitter keeps the memes coming

While Facebook’s status page did not indicate a problem, a spokesperson for the platform told DailyMail, “Today, a network configuration issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook technologies. We quickly resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologize for any inconvenience”.

The sudden outage sparked many memes and jokes online, with hashtag # FacebookDown, WhatsAppDown and #InstagramDown trending on Twitter.

Take a look at some of the reactions here:
https://twitter.com/mani_hahaha/status/1402776242722574340

https://twitter.com/bby_rse/status/1402786990983028736

The social media platform outage comes after a massive internet blackout on Tuesday, June 8, impacting several major websites.

News outlets like Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times and popular platforms like Twitch, Spotify, Hulu, HBO Max, and Pinterest were impacted at the time. Users were reportedly greeted with “Error 503 Service Unavailable” on the platforms. Even Britain’s gov.uk, was inaccessible for quite some time.

According to a report by BBC, cloud computing provider Fastly, which underpins a lot of major websites, said it was behind the outage. The firm said there were issues with its global content delivery network (CDN) and was implementing a fix. Websites were restored after around an hour of downtime.

Though it is unclear if the Facebook outage was linked to the larger outage, all the social media platforms are now restored.

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