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'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
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_
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
'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
Published 25 October 2022, 08:54 IST