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- Facebook faced global outage on Monday that prevented company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its services
- Pakistan Twitter did what Pakistan Twitter does best: have a laugh and turn to humor to make the most of the situation
RAWALPINDI: As Facebook Inc. faced a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, social media users, including in Pakistan, flooded to Twitter to post jibes against its rivalling platforms.
Twitter opened up the fun with a tweet saying: “hello literally everyone.”
In one of the day’s most popular tweets, video streaming company Netflix shared a meme from its new hit show “Squid Game” captioned “When Instagram & Facebook are down,” that showed a person labeled “Twitter” holding up a character on the verge of falling labeled “everyone.”
Pakistan Twitter too did what Pakistan Twitter does best – have a laugh and turn to humor to make the most of the situation, with hundreds of thousands of tweets about the outage popping up on the site overnight.
Twitter’s resident funny person @Mahobilli posted a meme of other apps giving Twitter the stink eye in the form of a grumpy cat.
With Whatsapp down, major teleco firm Jazz turned to Twitter to remind people of a service that was always reliable: “3 letters: S M S.”
Many tweeps also poked fun at the government, asking how it was being run since Whatsapp was down, referring to ubiquitous Pakistani jokes that politics was done mostly on social media now.
Others decided to poke a little fun at ‘slow’ Internet providers in Pakistan with Twitter user @Arhuml92 writing, “PTCL users still don’t know Facebook is down.”
PTCL, a telecom based in Pakistan, quickly sent out a reassuring message to its users: “WhatsApp and Facebook services are down globally and we assure you that there is no issue on our end.”
Twitter user @ashaqeens wrote in response: “PTCL really said ‘it’s not my mistake this time please stop yelling at me.”
Others quipped about how the outage was impacting their lives.
Islamabad police woman Amna Baig said: “Doing actual policing now that SM [social media] is down.”
Sports journalist Faizan Lakhani shared a popular gif of a frustrated, bored boy, saying admins of popular WhatsApp groups suddenly had nothing to do.
Journalist Safia Mahmood wrote, “bro whatsapp, facebook, insta down… how do i tell my fam I’m alive.”