Facebook went down
When Facebook experienced an outage on September 23, 2010, people on Twitter reacted mostly with humorous comments and visual jokes.
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And now, here is a collection of public posts about the Facebook outage of September 23, 2010.
… - When Facebook experienced an outage on Thursday, the company used Twitter to tell "friends" that their service was down.
- Sarcastic end-of-the-world tweets immediately started to appear in the Twittersphere.
- The topic also became popular outside of social networks, topping Google Trend's Hot Searches list.
- The trend was also noticed and shared by mobile Tweeters as they saw it emerge on their devices.
- 140-character veterans grew understandably concerned that the sheer volume of messages might take Twitter down too.
- The idea of actually communicating with people in real life became the punchline of many tweets.
- Eventually, news organizations started to report about the outage. It was on CNN.
- It was on ABC News.
- It was on Germany's ZDF channel.
- And as news companies reported the news, citizens helped each other out by posting suggestions of what Facebookers could do while they experienced social paralysis.
