Around 9 PM IST, Social media giants – Whatsapp, Facebook, and Instagram have gone kaput across the world. The outage is close to 90 minutes (at the time of writing this article and there are no indications of what is happening.
All the platforms have let out an information to their users that something is wrong at their end and they are working to redeem themselves. There are some conspiracy theories as well saying that these platforms have come under some hack and can not be restored forever!!!!
Meanwhile, Twitter is the only social media platform that is alive and kicking in this mayhem. The Twitter trends list is dominated by multiple Hashtags related to this outage. All the Hashtags are flooded with memes and trolls of the platforms that were down.
Check out some interesting ones here:
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#SquidGame #squidgamenetflix @TwitterIndia pic.twitter.com/LK3obAvBP0
— BINGED (@Binged_) October 4, 2021
Twitter currently looks like some terrace where everyone gathers during the time of power cut!#WhatsApp
— Sanjeevee sadagopan (@sanjusadagopan) October 4, 2021
Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find https://t.co/qHzVq2Mr4E or https://t.co/JoIPxXI9GI got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail?
— briankrebs (@briankrebs) October 4, 2021