Facebook went down this morning for all of 20 minutes and the (social) world came to a literal standstill. Many users were left in shock before quickly recovering and rushing to Twitter to complain about the outage.
“Sorry, something went wrong,” the error message read, “We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”
The problem was fixed and the platform is now operational.
In a statement, Facebook apologized for the worldwide outage but did not give the reason for it.
“Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented some users from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.”
This is not the first time the giant social network had gone down. Back in the year 2010, Facebook went down for a record two and a half hours.
Kenyans, never ones to be left behind, took on the hashtag #AsFacebookWasDown and poured in a healthy dose of humor to it.
@C_NyaKundiH: #AsFacebookWasDown I spoke to my Family , they seem to be nice people
@lenana_: #AsFacebookWasDown kenyans were asking for a dialogue with mark zuckeberg
@DavidAwinyo: #AsFacebookWasDown Most Kenyans realised they can open Twitter Accounts.
@Alphaeus_O : #AsFacebookWasDown Lenku was busy drawing another red line
@C_NyaKundiH: #AsFacebookWasDown Facebook is not down. Mark Zuckerberg just set everything to private
@JosephAkello: #AsFacebookWasDown people started talking to each other...
@xtiandela: Hahaha...Ole Lenku has sent Aircraft to do Surveillance over Facebook timelines
@JayfixJackson: #AsFacebookWasDown jimmy gait told us the difference between "make it or make it'
@xtiandela: #AsFacebookWasDown Luhyas from Facebook came to hunt the Blue Hen on Twitter"
@C_NyaKundiH: #AsFacebookWasDown Some people started roaming the streets with their pictures screaming " Do you like this ?
Not be left behind were memes such as these:
