Thank God most people were asleep for the crisis.
A drama swept the world wide web this morning as Facebook, Tinder and Instagram were all down for around 40 minutes.
Yeah, 40 minutes doesn’t seem very significant, but it was a testing time for social media lovers all over the planet.
Thankfully Twitter wasn’t affected by the outage, and these people’s reactions were great.
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder down. If Twitter goes down too people will have to actually start talking to each other…… #nooooooooo
— lehmo (@lehmo23) January 27, 2015
Tinder is down so RT for swipe left, fave for swipe right, please.
— Ashley Mayer (@ashleymayer) January 27, 2015
Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder are all down, so save your battery and just awkwardly stare at your palm to avoid talking to loved ones.
— Dan Casey (@osteoferocious) January 27, 2015
Facebook down = people must talk to each other or read. Tinder down = people must hit on strangers in the street.
— Josh Noble (@JoshTANoble) January 27, 2015
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder are all down this morning – so turn on your radio and hug yourself.
— Sinead Spain (@sineadspain) January 27, 2015
facebook, instagram, tinder, and aim are all down. finally. this is it. this is how it ends. i’m so ready for the aliens to kill me.
— joe (@anamericangod) January 27, 2015
Currently Down: – Facebook – Instagram – Tinder Currently Up: – Google+ – mySpace
— Austin Hunt (@AustinHunt) January 27, 2015
Now Tinder is down. Nothing is safe. WE ARE AT DEFCON 1. EXPORT ALL YOUR TWEETS WHILE THERE’S STILL TIME.
— Kam (@kampashai) January 27, 2015
Facebook, Tinder, and Instagram are down. Turn to p. 52 of “How To Talk To People IRL” for further details on how to proceed, Millennials.
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 27, 2015
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder are down. Twitter, let us go, we will finally be free.
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) January 27, 2015
Then all of a sudden, they all came back.
Instagram is back. Facebook is back. Jesus Christ is not back yet tho. 🙁
— Chris D’Elia (@chrisdelia) January 27, 2015
Ah, it’s okay. You don’t have to talk to us anymore. Facebook’s back up.
— Den Of Geek (@denofgeek) January 27, 2015
Facebook and Instagram are back up! Everyone can get out of their fetal position.
— Fortune Feimster (@fortunefunny) January 27, 2015
LinkedIn, OkCupid, and Twitter are not suitable Facebook replacements. Glad we’re back up again! #facebookdown
— Brian Ward (@brianward) January 27, 2015
Oh no, Facebook and Instagram are back? I was getting work done for the first time in 8 years.
— omarcanuck (@omarcanuck) January 27, 2015
The group behind the hacking of Sony’s PlayStation network and XBox live claimed responsibility for the outage.
Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM, Hipchat #offline #LizardSquad
— Lizard Squad (@LizardMafia) January 27, 2015
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