The three social media services, all owned by Facebook, run on a shared back end infrastructure, creating a 'single point of failure' according to experts. Even their authoritative name server ranges have been BGP withdrawn.' One user took a picture of an electrician fixing wiring and superimposed the tech billionaire's face over the top.Ĭybersecurty expert, Kevin Beaumont, wrote on Twitter at the time: 'This one looks like a pretty epic configuration error, Facebook basically don't exist on the internet right now. Others joked about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg being sent in to fix the problem. One shared a picture of Pixar superhero Mr Incredible saying 'It's showtime' with the caption: 'When most social media apps are down, Twitter be like.'Īnother, carrying on the theme, used a clip of comedy character Mr Bean, representing Twitter, alongside another character wrapped head-to-toe in bandages, representing Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Social media users meanwhile flocked to Twitter to share memes about Facebook being down. In a Tweet liked almost three times and retweeted hundreds of thousands of times, the site's official page said: 'Hello literally everyone'.
'Hello literally everyone' was the tongue-in-cheek message from Twitter last night as it took a lighthearted approach to its rival Facebook suffering a worldwide outage.įacebook, along with its sister site Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp were down for six hours for millions of users across the world.
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