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Whatsapp down: Twitter explodes with memes after users report disruption

Popular messaging app WhatsApp stopped working for many people across the world on October 25, with users in Asia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Europe reporting issues sending and receiving texts and videos. The outage, perhaps expectedly, sprouted a plethora of memes, with Twitteratis deciding to to take matters into their own hands to give everyone a laugh. Here is a compilation of a few memes that left the internet laughing.
Last Updated : 25 October 2022, 09:59 IST
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WhatsApp has become a critical means of communication for households and businesses alike. When WhatsApp had an outage that lasted a few hours last October, trading of assets from cryptocurrencies to oil was affected before traders switched to alternative platforms such as Telegram. Credit: Twitter/VodkaTweetz
WhatsApp has become a critical means of communication for households and businesses alike. When WhatsApp had an outage that lasted a few hours last October, trading of assets from cryptocurrencies to oil was affected before traders switched to alternative platforms such as Telegram. Credit: Twitter/VodkaTweetz
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WhatsApp's latest outage comes during the festive season in India — its biggest market by user count — when people use the platform even more than usual to send festive greetings. Credit: Twitter/Vin77371545
WhatsApp's latest outage comes during the festive season in India — its biggest market by user count — when people use the platform even more than usual to send festive greetings. Credit: Twitter/Vin77371545
The outage was confirmed by Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Credit: Twitter/KarthikOrugunt1
The outage was confirmed by Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Credit: Twitter/KarthikOrugunt1
Meanwhile, most of the memes depicted how everyone rushes to Twitter whenever a social media app faces an outage. Credit: Twitter/stonepari307
Meanwhile, most of the memes depicted how everyone rushes to Twitter whenever a social media app faces an outage. Credit: Twitter/stonepari307
Users found solace in the fact that they weren't the only ones experiencing the outage. Credit: Twitter/GingerPower_
Users found solace in the fact that they weren't the only ones experiencing the outage. Credit: Twitter/GingerPower_
Amassing more than 30,000 retweets and 100,000 likes, this meme quickly went viral. Credit: Twitter/punjabii_munda
Amassing more than 30,000 retweets and 100,000 likes, this meme quickly went viral. Credit: Twitter/punjabii_munda
Twitteratis also made good use of popular cultural productions such as 'Money Heist' to joke about the current outage. Credit: Twitter/Jacksonnyakoe
Twitteratis also made good use of popular cultural productions such as 'Money Heist' to joke about the current outage. Credit: Twitter/Jacksonnyakoe
'Squid Game' meme formats were also used to poke fun at the flood of users coming on to Twitter due to the WhatsApp outage. Credit: Twitter/imAmanDubey
'Squid Game' meme formats were also used to poke fun at the flood of users coming on to Twitter due to the WhatsApp outage. Credit: Twitter/imAmanDubey
Netizens flooding to Twitter after the WhatsApp outage is accurately captured by this meme. Credit: Twitter/Amritra05073362
Netizens flooding to Twitter after the WhatsApp outage is accurately captured by this meme. Credit: Twitter/Amritra05073362
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Published 25 October 2022, 08:54 IST

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