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Elon Musk and thousands of users on X, formerly known as Twitter, took to the platform to mock Meta as its popular social media apps Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday morning.
The outage, which began around 10:20 am ET, led to an influx of users sharing memes and jokes about the situation. Musk joined in on the fun by sharing a tweet from Meta communications boss Andy Stone, highlighting the outrage, overlaid onto a photo of three penguins with Meta company logos saluting a penguin with an X logo.
According to DownDetector, more than 200,000 Americans experienced issues with Facebook, with another 30,000 struggling with Messenger, and 8,000 battling to get Facebook Messenger to work.
The outage sparked waves of internet humor, with many users touting the superiority of X and joking about being joined by millions of social media addicts unable to access their usual platforms during the downtime.
