


Services to the platforms were finally restored at 11.40 pm. The official Twitter account tweeted Hello literally everyone, prompting responses not only from the WhatsApp and Instagram’s accounts but also others. Thousands of users of the three platforms took to Twitter to complain about the outage. During the outage, Mike Schroepfer, the company’s chief technology officer, tweeted his “Sincere apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now." Well, this situation definitely gave rise to a meme fest on Twitter and the netizens could not stop trolling the situation. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram all three social media platform of Mark Zuckerberg-owned Facebook were down on March 19 at 11 pm in India. Social media users took to Twitter to rep. “Facebook and related properties disappeared from the Internet in a flurry of BGP updates," tweeted John Graham-Cumming, the chief technology officer at Cloudflare. Facebook experienced its biggest global outage since 2008, with Instagram and WhatsApp also down as of Monday afternoon. Millions of users on Monday reported that they were unable to access the services WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation. With Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all hit by a massive global outage, everyone flooded. Well, it wouldn’t be wrong to state that almost everyone felt paralyzed after these social media platforms went dark. OctoA mini social media apocalypse unfolded Monday morning, and people were freaking out. In what is considered to be one of the largest failures ever, these apps were down for quite a long time. Last night almost the entire world came to standstill when Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp went dark around.
