Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger - platforms managed by Meta - were down for over an hour on Tuesday evening for thousands of users in India and several other countries. Within minutes of the outage, people moved to Elon Musk-owned X and #Instagramdown, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are trending on the social media platform, with users sharing memes over the global server issue.
Users were unable to load apps, deliver messages and refresh their search feeds on Facebook and Instagram.
Here are some of the top memes on X:
Sharing a clip from Akshay Kumar's comedy classic 'Khatta Meetha', a user said, "Mark Zuckerberg And Meta trying to restart Instagram and Facebook Servers."
A user shared a clip from an episode of Mr Bean and took a jibe over Meta. Mr Bean, as X, is in a hospital sitting next to a patient covered with bandages, representing Meta and crosses his leg to make fun of him.
X owner Elon Musk wasn't behind, he responded to Meta spokesperson Andy Stone's statement with a meme.
American pop star Paris Hilton shared a picture on the Meta outage
"Facebook, Instagram & Whatsapp users rushing to Twitter after Meta applications are down," another user wrote.
There were more than 300,000 reports of outages on Facebook, while there were more than 20,000 reports on Instagram, according to the website.
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