7 Tweets from Brands About the Facebook Outage

October 4, 2021

Since Monday morning, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR have all been experiencing an outage. The platforms went down simultaneously, and brands quickly rushed to Twitter to make jokes about it. Here’s a quick roundup of some of our favorites:

1. Instagram

2. MTV NEWS

3. Lowe's

4. Groupon

5. Hootsuite

6. Old Navy


7. IHOP



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