The social media networks have become an important part of our lives nowadays and they are used for not just communication but also business purposes as there are many organizations that are dependent on few social media networks for their smooth functioning.
Yesterday, the social media network Facebook, photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp faced global outage because of which many online users were not able to use the services of these three platforms. Many users took to micro-blogging site Twitter to express their annoyance and complained on not being able to use these apps.
All the three apps issued statements on Twitter regarding their non-functioning:
Here is what Instagram tweeted, “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown”.
Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 4, 2021
WhatsApp’s tweet read, “We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!”
We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021
This is what Facebook wrote on Twitter, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Meta (@Meta) October 4, 2021
The chance of cyber attack was denied by the security experts as the technologies used in all the three platforms are different so it is highly impossible to hack all three at the same time. Facebook which owns Instagram and WhatsApp stated that the outage happened due to internal technical issue and it also made it clear that there is no proof of user data being compromised.
Things turned back to normal after around 6 hours and it was one of the longest outages of the year. Miffed netizens expressed their frustration on Twitter but there were some who showed creativity and shared some funny memes in this regard that will make you go ROFL:
#1
Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram was down. People are come to #Twitter vibing.. pic.twitter.com/C3yqZzcPTJ
— Optisage Technology (@Optisage) October 5, 2021
#2
WiFi routers when WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were down. pic.twitter.com/x2Nrviz2mZ
— maithun (@Being_Humor) October 5, 2021
#3
Me thinking about my life when Facebook
WhatsApp, Instagram all are down : pic.twitter.com/5Zvq1Pn36d— Mr Rajput …;( (@Darshan51954611) October 5, 2021
#4
Facebook Whatsapp and Instagram had gone down for many hours.#serverdown#WhatsAppDown
Others Me pic.twitter.com/eFtH6PG17d
— Junius (@piebyfour) October 5, 2021
#5
People coming on Twitter to check what happened to whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram 🤣#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/qAXE6eB6mq
— Shivam Manjhwarr Khatu (मोदी का परिवार) (@shivammanjhwarr) October 5, 2021
#6
Yesterday's night ,lovers be like after whatsapp, instagram, facebook down !😂😩#whatsappdown #instagramdown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/7iRcwTUmtu
— Shoeb.athar (@imSathar) October 5, 2021
#7
https://twitter.com/Visleek2/status/1445177987226275841
#8
Facebook WhatsApp and Instagram down pic.twitter.com/5mqZD2LMNY
— Apoiador do 🐙🏳️🌈⃤ (@pastrana_paulo) October 5, 2021
#9
Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp down?
Developers: Users: pic.twitter.com/UTN3IKxNSd
— 🐥🐢🐰🐻🐹 💚 (@tokkivelvet) October 5, 2021
#10
Twitter holding social media after WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are down😂😂 #WhatsApp#Facebook #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/HM4z8iUdSU
— Flick☆ (@thereal_flick) October 4, 2021
#11
#facebookdown
Me apologising to my WiFi network after blaming it for WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram outage….#facebookdown #instagramdisabled pic.twitter.com/fSarNTKotm— Tech Praveen (@_techpraveen) October 4, 2021
#12
Twitter watching WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook go down: pic.twitter.com/axJh6aIdzq
— Marii (@mariamaloa) October 4, 2021
#13
Me sending messages on Google pay due to the server down. #WhatsApp #Facebook #Instagram pic.twitter.com/XIcGrRoarc
— Pratik Rout (@pratikrout101) October 4, 2021
#14
9pm to 4am Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down
Le babu sona : pic.twitter.com/5qssCpr9Sj
— RAJIV (@rajivcasm13) October 5, 2021
#15
#InternetShutDown
After Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down
Le me: pic.twitter.com/0yceHwhdLW— Satyam Sharma (@satyamvasistha) October 5, 2021
#16
How #Twitter and #Telegram users felt during the last 7 hours😂😂😂#WhatsApp #whatsappdown #facebookdown #serverdown #instagramdisabled #Facebook #Instagram pic.twitter.com/2Wl5nGy9dL
— youssefabouelela (@yousefabouelela) October 4, 2021
#17
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp goes down.
Le Desi Parents: 👇🏻👇🏻😂 pic.twitter.com/HmE8vXZBGx— Muhammad Amir (@Muhamma98211253) October 5, 2021
#18
Facebook,instagram,whatsapp were down globally.
Me who was sleeping all day pic.twitter.com/2V4ALUPfbu— J T Jaggu (@JayashreeTarai) October 5, 2021
#19
#facebookdown
When my facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp starts working : pic.twitter.com/Evl12eXDK9— Pragya Tiwari (@iam_pragyaT) October 5, 2021
#20
https://twitter.com/MirandaCGoa/status/1445164277522894851
The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made an apology to all the online users and stated, “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about.”
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10113957526871061
The shares of Facebook also went down because of outage and it made Mark Zuckerberg bear a loss of around $7bn.
Well, it will not be wrong to say that such an outage brings life of netizens to halt to some extent and hopefully we don’t experience any more outage this year!
