With the global outage at Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the largest social media in the world have been shut down for hours now. And that results in a lot of gloating on the social media that can still be reached, but also many new users on those platforms.
Twitter welcomed them with open arms tonight:
The Signal chat app, which presents itself as a more reliable alternative to WhatsApp when it comes to user privacy, suddenly says it is signing up a lot of new users:
Meanwhile, many twitterers in particular have a lot of fun with the misery at the major competitor. Under the hashtag #facebookdown it’s raining jokes and memes. A selection of the most popular:
But how to kill time now? Just do the same as you normally do on social media, but in person, this tweeter suggests:
Books are also being rediscovered en masse: