{"id":4747,"date":"2015-01-27T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/when-everyone-on-twitter-tweets-facebook-is-down-facebookdown\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:46:01","slug":"when-everyone-on-twitter-tweets-facebook-is-down-facebookdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/27\/4747\/","title":{"rendered":"When Everyone on Twitter Tweets Facebook is Down: #FacebookDown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For almost an hour this morning, the popular social networking site Facebook and its subsidiary, photo-sharing service Instagram were down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This fact became breaking news not only on major news outlets, which reported the news immediately under &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; and tried to find out the cause, but also on Twitter, where the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23facebookdown&amp;src=typd\">#FacebookDown<\/a> was trending worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8602\/16353028546_739e40fd2e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook-Down\" width=\"600\" height=\"640\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7455\/16193180387_565eacc864_o.png\" alt=\"#FacebookDown Trending\" width=\"500\" height=\"447\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Many users responded to Facebook&#8217;s unavailability with humor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Facebook is down right now, so I will start making calls to let you know when I&#8217;m going to the gym and how my dinner looked. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/facebookdown?src=hash\">#facebookdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Chan (@415dc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/415dc\/status\/559968706386616320\">January 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>It&#8217;s so weird having Facebook down, because you can&#8217;t go on Facebook and see 1000 people all saying that Facebook is down. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/facebookdown?src=hash\">#facebookdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rmayemsinger\/status\/559968566774996992\">January 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One user updated his status by writing &#8220;Facebook is Down&#8221; on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Manual Facebook Update Protocols Engaged: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FacebookDown?src=hash\">#FacebookDown<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/vxxgC6CMYf\">pic.twitter.com\/vxxgC6CMYf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 King Podge (@kingpodge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kingpodge\/status\/559967333771276288\">January 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The satirical online platform 9GAG, joining in the fun, tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Instagram and Facebook are down because they can&#8217;t handle your duck face anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InstagramDown?src=hash\">#InstagramDown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FacebookDown?src=hash\">#FacebookDown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 9GAG (@9GAG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9GAG\/status\/559962258520817665\">January 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Apart from searching for an alternative platform to share the news that Facebook was down, some users sometimes try to get information from law enforcement authorities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In August 2014, when Facebook was once again down for a short period of time, people in the US began to call the police.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the time, Sgt. Burton Brink of the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department sent a tweet asking the public not to call the police to get news about Facebook.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Facebook?src=hash\">#Facebook<\/a> is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don&#8217;t call us about it being down, we don&#8217;t know when FB will be back up!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sgt. Brink (@LASDBrink) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LASDBrink\/status\/495246980075900928\">August 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>There was little reaction from Twitter users in Armenia regarding the news that Facebook was down because the number of Twitter users in Armenia isn&#8217;t all that great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Anna Barseghyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost an hour this morning, the popular social networking site Facebook and its subsidiary, photo-sharing service Instagram were down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This fact became breaking news not only on major news outlets, which reported the news immediately under &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; and tried to find out the cause, but also on Twitter, where the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23facebookdown&amp;src=typd\">#FacebookDown<\/a> was trending worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-anna-barseghyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}