Twitter wins as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffer another global outage

There were more than 154,100 outage reports on Facebook, 80,200 on Instagram and 1,300 on WhatsApp, according to Down Detector, a real-time outage monitoring site.

By: Trends Desk
New Delhi | April 9, 2021 11:23 AM IST

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#InstagramDown #FacebookDown soon started trending on Twitter as people flocked to the microblogging site to share memes and jokes on the outage.

Twitter was flooded with memes and jokes after Facebook Inc services including Instagram and WhatsApp suffered another global outage on Thursday.

There were more than 154,100 outage reports on Facebook, 80,200 on Instagram and 1,300 on WhatsApp, according to Down Detector, a real-time outage monitoring site.

#InstagramDown, #FacebookDown soon started trending on Twitter as people flocked to the microblogging site to share memes and jokes on the outage. Take a look here:
https://twitter.com/LMalezai/status/1380354721295257601

https://twitter.com/Malik___U/status/1380354910613540867

https://twitter.com/HannahRamesar/status/1380273232201330701

https://twitter.com/Jahanerekhta/status/1380274069443076096

https://twitter.com/laurencemoss7/status/1380271980457394179

This is the second time in a month that the Facebook services have suffered an outage where users across the globe reported connectivity issues for more than an hour.

Responding to the outage, Facebook Inc in a statement said, “A configuration change caused Facebook services to be unavailable to some people. We quickly investigated and resolved the issue.”

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