The Internet Broke Today: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube All Down At Once
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube suffered outages at the same time, restricting user access to the four biggest tech platforms in the world.
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.
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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.
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Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed.
¡ª Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 8, 2023
?? Note: Twitter is experiencing international outages affecting website, mobile app and features including posting and retweeting; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/3OmR99Uy76
¡ª NetBlocks (@netblocks) February 8, 2023
"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.
Also read: Leaked Document Suggests Barely Anyone Is Paying For Twitter Blue Subscription
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.
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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.
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Even then, YouTube posted on Twitter that its homepage was down for some people and that they were "looking into it."
hi, we've seen reports that YouTube homepage is down for some of you ? we're looking into it rn, really sorry if you¡¯re experiencing this
¡ª TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) February 9, 2023
we¡¯ll follow up with more soon, thx for your patience ?
Naturally, chaos ensued on social media in the aftermath of this collective outage.
Whole Internet Going Down One Site at a Time Today... pic.twitter.com/ZViehBpp6t
¡ª Charlie Schneider (@AwesomEmergency) February 9, 2023
Something very wonky happened to the internet today. It's not just Twitter. A lot of sites have been acting messed up or are flat out down. This is just a few. pic.twitter.com/5FeKePJLp2
¡ª Vicki (@vikksu) February 9, 2023
The person at Twitter trying to figure out which cord to plug back in. #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/zixmJwpUY4
¡ª Tyler Roney (@TylerJRoney) February 8, 2023
BREAKING: Massive outages reported across multiple websites and apps ¡ª it¡¯s not just Twitter pic.twitter.com/BSXzSP4U6c
¡ª ALX ?? (@alx) February 8, 2023
Could this be true? We won't know!
Elon didn't realize Twitter uses their own API & ordered his devs to shut their entire app down ? pic.twitter.com/d5dpUBvSy1
¡ª William LeGate (@williamlegate) February 9, 2023
Twitter not working ?#Twitter #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/Oo2lyqjcJG
¡ª ARHAM_PTI28 (@28_pti) February 8, 2023
me realizing it¡¯s an Instagram problem after uploading my story 23 times #instagramdown #instagram pic.twitter.com/vH30mnZVuh
¡ª Jowan Manjooran Jomon (@JowanJomon) February 8, 2023
Me checking Twitter to make sure Instagram is down or is it just me: pic.twitter.com/co7c0ObXuo
¡ª Joy! (@jjjjjooyyy) February 7, 2023
instagram, twitter, & now youtube down¡ pic.twitter.com/naTa7nj5PC
¡ª J ?? (@violetskatana) February 9, 2023
Nah hold up ... there is no way that Instagram, Twitter and now YouTube ALL go down within the SAME DAY like this ... fuckery is afoot ? pic.twitter.com/Ko3OuJGxFr
¡ª UnrealEntGaming (@TooRealUnreal) February 9, 2023
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