Social media tables turned on Thursday evening when Twitter — not Facebook — went down for a few hours around the world.
“We are currently investigating issues people are having accessing Twitter. We will keep you updated on whats happening,” Twitter reported on its status page at around 9pm SAST.
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An hour later, the company confirmed that the outage was “due to an internal configuration change” and, eventually, Twitter went back online.
Rather fond of poking fun at Facebook users when its platforms go down from time to time, Twitter users didn’t hold back with #twitterdown when it came to their own outage.
Me on other social media apps waiting for twitter to come back.
#TwitterDown #Twitter pic.twitter.com/dISA9SPuOE — Feliz Karen News (@felizkrennews) July 11, 2019
twitter really pulled a instagram. #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/WEM6nlPvuy
— dani
(@wickedlyblackxx) July 12, 2019
I thought my account was blocked or something
#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/bOuM6QW2nO — Bonginkosi B* Mbele
(@BongiBMbele) July 12, 2019
When Twitter is down so you gotta use Facebook
#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/hVVCCiamzw — – (@esketami) July 12, 2019
Even Twitter itself saw the funny side.
“Miss us”, the company asked in a tweet.
miss us?
— Twitter (@Twitter) July 11, 2019
It’s safe to say the Twitter community was relieved the outage didn’t last too long.
Everyone coming back to Twitter now that we all know we didn’t get suspended
#Twitter #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/vQftNsXtX1 — Feliz Karen News (@felizkrennews) July 11, 2019
Feature image: screenshot, @twitter via Twitter
