Global Outage of Facebook and Instagram Leads to Memes on Social Media Platforms
Published: 05 March 2024 at 17:58
Technology
A global server issue caused outages on Facebook and Instagram with more than 300,000 reports on Facebook and over 20,000 on Instagram. Users flocked to Twitter after the Meta-owned apps went down, with Mark Zuckerberg and Meta trending. Memes mocking the situation, including references to Akshay Kumar\'s movie and Mr. Bean, circulated widely. Elon Musk joined in with a meme in response to a Meta spokesperson, adding to the humor surrounding the outage, considered the most significant of 2024.
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