This Is Proof That Your Life Sucks So Much [Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Other Apps Down Today]

Piece by: Harun Momanyi
Lifestyle

This morning, 3 of the world's most popular social networks were down. What were you doing? When they were down? Were you just biting your pen tip at work? Or fidgeting in a lecture lesson? Or feeling like it's the end of the world in a matatu?

Apart from today (27 Jan 2015), Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were down for one hour - around the world. For us who don't use Tinder or don't even know that it exists, we didn't know that it was down too. My speculation is that Insta and Facebook, which are both owned by Mark Zuckerberg, could have had issues because, well, same management. With Twitter, it makes things even more complex and the possibilities of the outage are infinite - most probably a DDOS attack.

The last time Facebook was down was in Sep 2014, when it went down twice that month. Below are some reactions from today's outage: