Facebook, Instagram snag: X (formerly Twitter) remains flooded with memes
Press Trust of Kashmir Report
Even as Facebook and Instagram outage unnerved netizens fearing hacking, the X remained flooded with memes, taking a dig at Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg over his attendance in the pre-wedding bash of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant Ambani.
Hundreds of social media users, including X owner Elon Musk, reacted to the mass outage that lasted for around an hour-and-a-half.
Notably, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp were down in India and in many parts of the world today evening, with netizens boarding X (formerly Twitter) with memes. Many of them even shared their fear of a “cyber attack” and hacking of their accounts as they were unable to use these social media and video streaming platforms.
None other than the X owner Elon Musk was among the first to react to the mass outage. He took potshots at Meta and tweeted, “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”
A Mint report said that a user shared a morphed video of popular Irish actor Cillian Murphy with the caption, “Me going out of my room to meet my family when Instagram is down”.
Red Chillies Entertainment was also quick to share a meme with a clip from Shah Rukh Khan’s blockbuster Jawan.
Meanwhile, a group of X users, as reported by the Mint, also feared that their accounts were hacked as they were unable to log in and asked to change passwords. “Me after checking on Twitter that Meta is just down and I’m not hacked since my Instagram isn’t loading and my Facebook got “session logged out”.
According to Reuters, Meta’s status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues. There were around 200 reports of outages for WhatsApp on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users.
“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X social media.
