The Internet Broke Today: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube All Down At Once
The internet broke down today! This is not an exaggeration. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube suffered outages at the same time, restricting user access to the four biggest tech platforms in the world.
On Twitter, users reported not being able to Tweet, for they'd hit their "Tweet limit" for the day. While Twitter has a Tweet limit (2,400 Tweets per day) to limit strain on the platform. But in this case, people who were receiving the message claimed that they hadn't even tweeted that day.
"Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We¡¯re aware and working to get this fixed," Twitter's support page wrote. Could it have something to do with the fact that most of Twitter's heavyweight staff has been let go to maximise profits? We might never find out.
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Meta's Facebook and Instagram
While that would have usually marked the end of the outage for the day, life had other plans. Not much later, Facebook and Instagram also faced trouble when users said that they were unable to post new stories on Instagram or reach Facebook Messenger.?
Downdetector also reported a spike in incident reports on the Meta-owned platforms around the same time that Twitter went down. Over 12,000 Facebook users reported trouble while 7,000 Instagram users noted issues in the early hours of Thursday.
YouTube
At this point, you would think that the fragile world of technology had endured enough. Enter YouTube. Google's video streaming platform kept showing some users a message that went - "Something went wrong. Please try again." This isn't happening to everyone and I wasn't able to reproduce the issue.
Even then, YouTube posted on Twitter that its homepage was down for some people and that they were "looking into it."?
Naturally, chaos ensued on social media in the aftermath of this collective outage.
?Could this be true? We won't know!
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