As Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffer global outage, Twitter keeps the memes coming

 

Facebook and its sister platforms WhatsApp and Instagram faced a global outage on Wednesday and netizens took to Twitter to share memes and jokes about the same. According to the Independent, users from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Bangladesh, the UK and the US reported issues with the platform.

DownDetector, a platform that tracks online outages recorded that the issues began at 11:40 pm GMT when people complained of not being able to upload photos.

While Facebook’s status page did not indicate a problem, a spokesperson for the platform told DailyMail, “Today, a network configuration issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook technologies. We quickly resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologize for any inconvenience”