As you surely know by now, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down. They've been offline for six hours and counting due to an apparent server configuration issue.
Meanwhile, over at Twitter, which has (mostly) been working just fine today, CEO Jack Dorsey has been tweeting — and liking some funny and shady tweets — about his competitors' misfortune.
It started this morning, when Jack inquired about the cost of the Facebook.com domain, which appeared to have been listed for sale.
how much? https://t.co/fH0zXw7rV9
And he continued by suggesting people use Signal, an encrypted instant messaging service, instead of WhatsApp.
Signal is WhatsUp 🆙 https://t.co/zpRrxf9qKP https://t.co/T23l7Ih6NQ
But the mischief didn't stop there. Here are some of the other funny/shady tweets Jack liked during the outage.
1.
Sorry, @jack, they don’t take bitcoin. Only personal information. https://t.co/TwjN2SA5bk
2.
Currently:
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Jack right now
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Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place. #facebookdown
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@Twitter 👋 hello!
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Downtime? Never touch the stuff.
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Main Street Facebook is causing anxiety and suicide amongst teenagers Wall Street Yeah but they are growing revs by 56% and income by 101%
9.
Instagram, Facebook et WhatsApp ne marchent plus 😭😭 #instagramdown Twitter :
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Twitter for life.
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Big day for us DNS nerds
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the internet is incredibly privatized and it fucking sucks.
13. And finally, he also liked this tweet, which, while not shady and definitely not funny, underscores the effect today's outage could have on small businesses that rely on the platforms for advertising:
If you think WhatsApp and Facebook being down is no big deal, you're definitely not running a small business in an emerging market!