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The first reports came in around noon-ish on the East Coast. Glitchy at best, completely shut down at worst, Facebook took to Twitter to let people know what’s up. Not much in the way of an answer, by the way.
We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Well, save for the fact that it appears Facebook knows that it’s “not related to a DDoS attack,” or massive organized global hack.
Meanwhile, the Internet is losing it. And maybe in a good way. Many see this as a big boon for Twitter and tons of memes suggest it’s all a Twitter plot. It’s not.
Seriously though, it’s closing in on hour number eight and there are no real answers coming from Facebook, which owns Instagram, which is leading some to speculate that it’s worse than we think.
In the last 12 hours, YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook and Instagram have gone down or been so incapacitated they did not work properly.
This cannot be a coincidence. Are we under hack attack? #facebookdown
And it’s not just those two platforms, WhatsApp is down and while widely used in the U.S., it’s not nearly as popular in the States as it is elsewhere globally.
And if Facebook’s out, so is Messenger.
Vanity Fair reported that a Facebook rep refused comment save to point to its two tweets from Wednesday afternoon.
In the meantime, as the world awaits the fix, here are some not-to-be-missed memes and funny tweets; some clever, some hysterical but many, desperate-sounding.
Not to be dramatic, but #FacebookDown & #InstagramDown make us want to cancel the rest of the day.
Time to fire this back up. #FacebookDown
instagram and facebook are down but Denny’s is always open
Mark zuckerberg y los de Facebook en estos momentos #FacebookDown
Me trying to find my man who’s not my man on twitter because Instagram is down
#facebookdown
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A chart of people joining Twitter today
#FacebookDown
Me when I see my friends able to post on both Facebook and Instagram and I can’t do anything but watch #facebookdown
Some Technical Issues on Facebook Family Apps
#whatsappdown #FacebookDown
Apparently Facebook and Instagram have been down all day. #FacebookDown
When your lizard spaceship comes to pick you up but it’s wavelengths fuck up Facebook and then you realize you never should have come to earth. #FacebookDown
Facebook crash forces public to resort to traditional stalking methods t.co/Q0gD0QbDE1 … #facebookdown #facebook
twitter users:
We know who’s behind this hack. #FacebookDown
Shutdown log:
Day 1:
It’s been 6 hours, and I can already feel the madness getting to me.
#FacebookDown
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