Whatsapp goes down for half hour, twitterati react in hilarious manner
The importance communication and staying connected in our daily lives was once again highlighted when messaging service Whatsapp was hit by a major outage, stopping millions of people from using it around the world.
People were being unable to send or receive messages using the Facebook-owned app on Friday afternoon, the reason for which is being said was a server problem. The service has since then been restored
The app didn't initially look broken, with chats and contacts able to load. But once a user was into a chat, the app just showed a "connecting" message that never resolves itself, and so new messages couldn't be sent or received.
While, it did become a cause of concern for many with users posting their anger, regret on social media, there were many twitter users who found humour in the situation and soon turned the outage into a trending topic with the hashtag #WhatsAppdown.
Chetan Bhagat tweeted,
The reason for #WhatsAppDown could be an Indian engineer working there. His girl blocked him and he went 'le phir, main block to sab block'
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) November 3, 2017
While, one Pritish Bhattacharya wrote,
The whole #whatsappdown thing does not really affect me because I don't have anyone to chat with. pic.twitter.com/lHKJiCPavx
— Pritish Bhattacharya (@PritishB1) November 3, 2017
While another Gayatri Gambhir wrote that she is feeling better with the situation,
Whatsapp msg not sent:
— Gayatri Gambhir (@gayatri_171) November 3, 2017
Step 1: Restart Mobile Data
Step 2: Restart phone
Step 3: Check #Twitter#whatsappdown trending. Now I feel better!
Another Twitter user pointed out that people are reacting as if it is a major world crisis,
ppl are reacting on whatsapp down as if its a major problem like global warming ;))#WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/L6hHw9SL9e
— preetam kumar biswal (@BiswalPreetam) November 3, 2017
Rabia Anum perfectly voiced it,
So whatsapp down for a couple of minutes and made headlines worldwide.
— Rabia Anum (@RabiaAnumm) November 3, 2017
While @TroluKejri brought politics into the whole mix,
#WhatsAppDown Is A Complete Failure Of Modi's Digital India Campaign. PM Modi Must Resign.
— Arvind Kejriwal (@TroluKejri) November 3, 2017
Another user feared deaths due to Whatsapp failure,
500 people in India have already died because Whatsapp is down and they couldn't forward a chain message to 10 people. #WhatsappDown
— Anshu Mor (@anshuMor) November 3, 2017
Sir Ravindra Jadeja's parody account said what everyone was thinking,
RT If You Logged On To Twitter Only To Check If #WhatsappDown
— Sir Jadeja (@SirJadeja) November 3, 2017
And what trended while whatsapp was down? A number of people tweeted,
#yesmom
— जहाठचाह वहाठराहðŸ' (@humhairahi123) November 3, 2017
My #WhatsAppDown
But a video on Twitter
good message in it about god
Must watch pic.twitter.com/Z5bCAK1a6G
Whatsapp is since then up and running,
#WhatsappDown#whatsappUp is back pic.twitter.com/Wea49IPSq0
— Ali (@Ali_m_bakkar) November 3, 2017