Facebook, Instagram Down: Memes Roast Social Media Platforms as Elon Musk Has a Devil Laugh

Tuesday night witnessed a digital turmoil as Meta-owned platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, along with Threads, Messenger, and some WhatsApp users, grappled with significant outages. Around 8:56 p.m., users encountered difficulties loading content on their feeds, facing issues with the app, login, and content uploading. This prompted users to flock to ‘X’ for confirmation of the widespread issue and, naturally, to create memes about it.

The Meta outage swiftly escalated into a viral topic on Elon Musk’s ‘X’ as droves of users reported abrupt logouts from Meta-owned social media platforms. “Cyberattack,” “Mark Zuckerberg,” and “Instagram Facebook Down” surged to the top of trending topics. Musk himself seized the opportunity to flaunt the “superiority” of his platform while playfully teasing the outage, as evidenced in one of his posts: “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”

But that was merely the tip of the iceberg. The memefest persisted, keeping people engaged as they made use of their free time, waiting for services to be restored, through a barrage of humour and jokes.

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Downdetector, the outage-tracking website, registered over 300,000 Facebook outages and more than 47,000 reports of Instagram downtime worldwide.

Andy Stone from Meta addressed the concerns on ‘X,’ providing reassurance that solutions were underway. The outage endured for approximately an hour, after which all apps resumed normal operation. A statement was issued, expressing regret for any inconvenience caused and confirming the swift resolution of the issue. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Not to forget the financial aftershocks of this widespread disruption, which not only disconnected billions of users but also dealt a significant blow to the company, as experts have attested. As issue reports flooded in, Meta’s share price initially dipped by 1.5%, later sliding further by 1.6%. Now, experts have unveiled the staggering financial toll on Zuckerberg due to this colossal downtime. Wedbush Securities’ managing director, Dan Ives, revealed that Mark Zuckerberg incurred a staggering loss of about $100 million in income on Tuesday as a result of the global outage of his platforms.