Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have had services go down — and it didn’t take long for Twitter to revel in the fact that it was there to save the day.
Facebook, which also owns both Instagram and WhatsApp, said it was working quickly to try and remedy the situation.
It meant that millions of people flocked to Twitter to try and find out out what was going on — to be met by smug Twitter users who were making the most of their favorite site NOT being down.
The messaging site was flooded with memes mocking “villagers” who use the “rural” social media services affected by the outage.
Whatsapp: System down
Facebook: System down
Instagram: System downTwitter: Yaasss, got the crown? pic.twitter.com/pV94eZxT2p
— ʙᴀᴛᴍᴀɴ? (@Awieymasleh) July 3, 2019
Facebook: Down
Instagram: Down
Whatsapp: DownLogging into Twitter like… pic.twitter.com/9EdK6g860o
— MATHIPS (@mathipsto) July 3, 2019
Me right now???#Instagramdowm #facebookdown #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/0Jt8BCC3AS
— Dipayan Das (@_dipayan_das_) July 3, 2019
#watsaapdown #instagramdown #facebookdown
Seeing the world for first time https://t.co/suVQUCHtXs— Dr CN Muhammed Ashraf (@ashraful_cn) July 3, 2019
https://twitter.com/ShrmaGka_Ladka/status/1146464091579379712
Good to be on #Twitter. #WhatsAppDown
#FacebookDown
#Instagramdowm pic.twitter.com/JRNVbRqGWf— Tahir Ashraf (@Tahir_A) July 3, 2019
This is Twitter users when Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp is Down #instagramdown #WhatsAppDown #facebookdown https://t.co/XgVOF2hznv
— High Reach Media (@HighReachMedia) July 3, 2019
?? Happy that he doesn’t own #Twitter#WhatsAppDown #InstagramDown #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/7Js928IIvt
— Devil Bakshi ? (@devil_bakshi) July 3, 2019
The issue meant some Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users were unable to upload photos, files and videos — and it meant some photos were not appearing on the site, including those on links.
A Facebook spokesman told the BBC the company was “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible”. The latest problems come after Facebook’s sites and apps suffered their worst ever outage in March, in an episode lasting more than 14 hours. They also faced issues in April.
Julian Cheatle
Julian is the editor of Monsters & Critics. He has worked as a journalist for more than ten years, previously as an editor at the world's biggest-selling English language newspaper, The Sun. He has also contributed to a string of other publications including The Telegraph.