Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp went down on Monday and for some
people, the world stopped. But as tech giant Facebook grapples with the outage,
other companies have taken this opportunity to take a swipe at the social media
company.

Facebook’s social media rival Twitter took a dig at the outage,
tweeting, “Hello literally everyone,” from its official handle, indicating
that everyone is on Twitter now that Facebook is not working.

And though the app is not functioning, Whatsapp took the joke to another
level when it responded, “Hello”.

Google too was not far behind in this banter of the tech giants. Its
India arm asked everyone who is the person who switched on the Do Not
Disturb.

McDonald’s jumped into the banter and asked Twitter for an order. “Hello, what can we get you?” to which Twitter responded, “59.6 million nuggets for my friends”.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took a dig a Whatsapp’s response saying,” thought this was supposed to be encrypted”.

As per reports, DownDetector reported a quick spike in the number of cases of WhatApp not working for users on October 4. The same issue was observed
with Instagram, as well.

For Facebook users, they were redirected to an error page with a message
reading on the screen, saying that their browser could be connected. WhatsApp
Web dished out a message saying “this site can’t be reached”.
Incoming or outgoing messages on Whatsapp and Instagram were also blocked due
to the outage.

Facebook’s outages are rare but when it does, it’s vast in impact
because it affects three of the world’s biggest apps.

Commenting on the outage, Facebook said: “We’re aware that some
people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get
things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any
inconvenience.”

“Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right
now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it!”
Instagram said in a statement.

Facebook is going through a major crisis after the whistleblower who was
the source of The Wall Street Journal’s series of stories exposing the company’s
awareness of internal research into the negative effects of its products and
decisions went public on “60 Minutes” on Sunday.