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From news portals to social networking sites, multiple outages hit websites across the globe on Tuesday leaving netizens in a frenzy. Right from Reddit to Amazon, netizens failed to access scores of platforms, raising alarm on Twitter and soon enough, several hashtags popped up online creating a huge buzz.
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 also beginning to be restored, after around an hour of downtime, the report added. However, that didn’t stop netizens from flooding social media with jokes and conspiracy theories. From an impending apocalypse to blaming Loki behind the attack, Twitter seemed to work for most, and it got everyone talking online.
The sudden outage sparked many memes and jokes online, with hashtag #InternetShutdown, #InternetDown and #Error503 dominated trends on Twitter globally. From netizens to brands, all joined the bandwagon to find some solace amid many panicking it might be a “cyber attack”.
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