This past Wednesday, Facebook experienced a worldwide outage that lasted over eight hours. Of course, panic ensued, because when Facebook is down, so are all of the company’s apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp and dozens of others that we’re probably not even aware of.
With nowhere else to go, users turned to Twitter, where they complained about Facebook and about how tough everything is when you don’t have the digital world to distract you from real life.
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The hashtags #Instagramdown and #Facebookdown were trending for hours and hundreds of hilarious memes were born, ranging from the imaginary meltdown of influencers, to Facebook techs being completely unable to handle their servers. Check out some of our favorites:
welcome all you beautiful instagram exiles we’re ugly and mean here
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) March 13, 2019
Influencers showing up to twitter after Instagram shutdown pic.twitter.com/uksPoK7G1R
— Gabriel Munoz (@gabemunozz) March 13, 2019
Nobody:
Instagram: #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/OOKlwOsjpE
— Prophet (@redbrown_xd) March 14, 2019
Every Instagram model right now… #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/NBWG3VmSvO
— Dylan (@dylan_harr) March 14, 2019
me opening instagram for the 100th time knowing its down#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/P5Yy6wOtMG
— hannah (@yurdadislesbian) March 14, 2019
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Instagram: “We are working hard to resolve the issue”
Instagram developers:#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/LyPVXPlX3n
— Paskali? (@Arsen_Seni) March 14, 2019
*deletes instagram*
*reinstalls*
*resets phone*
*tries to log back in*
“an unknown error has occured”
me: #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/AnNlzI5BoB— ????! ツ (@sugarfairycth) March 14, 2019
#instagramdown
Everyone: Can y’all please just fix Instagram? It’s been over 7 hours.Instagram employees: pic.twitter.com/oGB0nHbdxf
— ~~ (@Jinsouls8inch) March 14, 2019
Instagram: we’re working really hard and doing everything we can to get instagram working again
Also instagram:#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/H1Ca2AUArR— Emily (@emilywerner27) March 14, 2019
