A meme-fest on Twitter as #InternetShutdown affected several websitesMultiple outages hit the internet on Tuesday, shutting down several media, government and social media websites across the world. Leading websites operated by news outlets such as the Financial Times and The New York Times, and e-commerce sites like Amazon were down but restored later. Other sites that were impacted included HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, and Vimeo. The outages lasted for a few minutes to an hour. Some reports suggested that there was a glitch at a US-based cloud computing services provider but more details were awaited.???? UK government, New York Times, Guardian, FT, Spectator & CNN websites are all reportedly down simultaneously????#InternetShutdownpic.twitter.com/Do7pVaV6Gh— Alex Lewis (@A_WelshLegend) June 8, 2021As an investigation was underway to find out what exactly happened, users on social media platforms that were not affected by the outages shared funny memes and began wondering “is this the end”.Seriously? Is this End? #InternetShutdownpic.twitter.com/qhtFFbslDA— Abhay Patil ???????? (@Abhay3838) June 8, 2021Some users suggested they were back to playing Solitaire like the good, old days when the internet was a new and scarce commodity.#internetoutage back to solitaire.#InternetShutdownpic.twitter.com/kRdfVcmvam— Atish Parmar (@atish_parmar) June 8, 2021Some others took a dig at those clamouring on social media about the shutdown using a perfectly fine internet connection.People tweeting about #InternetShutdown from the perfectly fine internet right now like pic.twitter.com/u40LmjCSTV— Meme xD (@Meme__xD) June 8, 2021Me agreeing with everyone on the internet with #InternetShutdown even when my internet was working just fine. pic.twitter.com/RemvcMsrVA— Sagarika Biswas (@SagaBiswas) June 8, 2021People tweeting about #internetdown from their completely fine internet right now.#InternetShutdownpic.twitter.com/4srxSdfnlJ— shubhi bhardwaj (@shubhiBhardwaj_) June 8, 2021Me tweeting about #internetdown from my completely fine internet right now.#InternetShutdownpic.twitter.com/2A4ErI709y— Mia???????? (@notyaregularhoe) June 8, 2021How it feels to Tweet when the internet is down. #InternetShutdown#internetoutage#internetdownpic.twitter.com/pr9WwL7qof— Uddalak Das (@ninja_writer21) June 8, 2021There were also those who took the opportunity to make fun of social media influencers, who rely on Internet platforms to reach their audience.#InternetShutdownFamous influencers..!! pic.twitter.com/qbmfTJatC4— aniel-ani ???????? #wearmask (@ani_royal007) June 8, 2021#internetdown#InternetShutdownMeanwhile youTubers streamers and socialmedia influencers be like :– pic.twitter.com/tmrUTZ9M3t— Debanshi Biswas (@BiswasDebanshi) June 8, 2021Others just had some real fun when most users were struggling to come back online or do anything meaningful.#InternetShutdown no worries let’s go out pic.twitter.com/NpE3yIOE3y— Last Human (@pLastHuman) June 8, 2021Experiencing #InternetShutdown#internetdownpic.twitter.com/ICLl0xzLGe— Inderjitsingh Sidhu (@Inderji42720445) June 8, 2021It was me.I plugged the wrong pie warmer in.#InternetShutdownpic.twitter.com/LFwfplddpH— ???????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????? (@sandeepgiri28) June 8, 2021*updates LinkedIn profile to ‘Skynet CTO’* #InternetShutdownpic.twitter.com/uBfJMFtxTI— Apptain America (@ApptainAmerica) June 8, 2021According to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com, nearly 21,000 Reddit users reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 users reported problems with Amazon.Most websites that went down showed a “503 error” code on their pages when a user tried to reach that website. The problem was caused by a glitch at American cloud service provider Fastly. It said on its service status website (which was working) it had identified the issue and fixed it.Later, a Reuters report stated that several websites hit by the outage were coming back online.The outages could have impacted those trying to book slots for COVID-19 vaccination to make reservations for immediate travel.Click for more trending news
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