Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Down: Outage Has Users Seeking Answers on Twitter
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YEP. Entire thing is borked. Tried sending a message, no dice.
— Yusef H(🎃rr🎃r). Dualeh (@yusefHD) October 4, 2021
Some tech savvy users wasted no time in reaching out to Facebook user support, with disappointing results. They reported slow and imprecise responses, if any came at all.
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Twitter every time any other social media got down.
— Mrinal Saha Noyon (@69noYon25) October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp is down!#Facebook #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/cf4UgFHOZP
Everyone from facebook running to Twitter to see if Facebook is down #Facebookdown pic.twitter.com/YqzUWtkRvd
— Chris_Wicklund (@Wicky_dubs_WX) October 4, 2021
Meanwhile, an increasingly familiar genre of memes resurfaced with jokes about users flooding Twitter just to discuss the other platforms. In many cases, outages like this can result in confusion on Twitter as infrequent visitors try to navigate the site.
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Me coming to twitter to see if WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are down#whatsappdown #instagramdown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/2ALii3Zj1W
— femke✨🌙 (@inlauvperry) October 4, 2021
When Instagram and whatsapp isn’t working #instagramdown #whatsappdown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/HTgE40e46v
— Aryaman (@AryamanRaheja07) October 4, 2021
In fact, many users admitted that they were not fond of Twitter but they were desperate for news on what was going on with Facebook. Some even joked about their own self-proclaimed addiction to social media in general.
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Facebook , Instagram ,WhatsApp is down. What’s wrong ? And Now, Twitter is the king 😁 #facebookdown #Whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/YlTKKV1K6u
— shabeerkodiyathur (@shabeerkdr) October 4, 2021
While Facebook outages are common enough to be familiar, Twitter has had far fewer meltdowns of this sort. For that reason, some users wondered why Facebook and its subsidiaries weren't taking more cues from Twitter.
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I'm blaming my Internet, and turn off my router again and again. oh shoot, actually I was wrong! #instagramdown #facebookdown #WhatsAppdown pic.twitter.com/w5HLOdsFdJ
— Shah Rhazb (@rhazbs) October 4, 2021
Some users complained that they had not realized the problem was with Facebook itself, and had done all kinds of unnecessary work trying to solve the problem on their own end. That ranged from resetting their home router to tinkering with their hardware itself.
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Y'all better fix this immediately or else...#facebookdown #WhatsApp pic.twitter.com/xKEXKFyWHe
— irecson (@ercsngrc) October 4, 2021
Finally, the overwhelming majority of posts boiled down to simple frustration, and users demanding that the services they love be restored immediately. At the time of this writing, some Facebook connectivity issues persist.
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