Facebook and its family of social media platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were down for hours on early Tuesday morning, 5 October
According to The New York Times, the outage affected over 3.5 billion people around the world who use these apps not only to communicate with friends and family, but also for work, news, advertising, food deliveries, livestreaming, and many other forms of distribution of information.
As people slowly found the platforms unavailable for use, many turned to Twitter to look for answers... and it also led to hundreds of hilarious responses and memes.
We've compiled a few for your viewing pleasure: