Many across the world are perturbed as three major social media platforms, WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, all owned by Mark Zuckerberg have gone down.

"Visitors to the Facebook website simply saw an error page or a message that their browser could not connect. The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work, but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems," an international media outlet reported.

To register their distress and communicate with one another, people have taken to Twitter.

Here in Ghana, many shared stories of how they recharged their data packages unaware such an initiative would not be productive and the high number of phone calls they have received in 4hours.

Nagging, sharing of images and memes of torture have been going on since 5PM today. One can attest that Twitter has been flooded with comments.

Despite the unfortunate incident, some have turned the worrisome situation into a satire, almost a tragicomedy. Twitter tweeted "Hello literally everyone" after the three platforms stopped functioning, appearing to tease all affected by the incident and a gentle reminder it remains active.

The question on all minds is "What time will these apps start working again?"

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Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, "the outages at Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram occurred because of a problem in the company’s domain name system, a crucial component of the internet."

Mark Zuckerberg reading tweets about the WhatsApp, Instagram and the Facebook saga from Twitter be like😭 pic.twitter.com/gNIu4j0pLJ

— GHANA GOOGLE (@Goglefame) October 4, 2021

Lets Make twitter great again #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/GO1NTFZ8WZ

— faysal bilaal (@faysalbilaal) October 4, 2021

The best part of WhatsApp Instagram and Facebook going down is Twitter trolling them. LOL 😀#facebookdown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/1hTkbuzTCT

— Ali vaqas (@Alivakas11Ali) October 4, 2021

Hour 5 without Facebook. #FacebookIsDown #Facebookdown pic.twitter.com/AgjbIElYL3

— Chuck Thurmond (@MisterThurmond) October 4, 2021

Me teaching my mom how to use Twitter. 🤣 #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/ezhav5aWDD

— Mwana Uta 🇿🇲🇹🇿🇲🇼 (@Hendrix_ChiChi) October 4, 2021

#facebookdown #WhatsAppDown #instagramdown #serverdown
Me thinking that this issue will be resolved in few minutes.
*Meanwhile pic.twitter.com/EzpKtLl7iq

— Shaurya Khurana (@ShauryaKhurana5) October 4, 2021

Serious oo
I have restarted the phone many times and have even lost count. Just to hear a friend saying that WhatsApp is down.

— danNY_BLiss (@DANI_MINTAH) October 4, 2021

Whatsapp down has made me receive the most calls in my life today.

I can literally hear the phone ringing in my head right now, became tired of saying hello, got to a point I just shout hey hey hey! 😂 😂#WhatsApp#whatsappdown#facebookdown#instadown#instagramdisabled

— DKB GHANA (@dkbghana) October 4, 2021

WhatsApp it's been 6 hours now, should we get worried?😒 pic.twitter.com/wWBGbwE046

— GHANA_GUNNER 🇬🇭🔴⚪ (@AFC_Fazeel) October 4, 2021

WhatsApp. Please it’s okay. Don’t worry. Or bother to fix it. Even as we were shouting fix the country our president of Ghana didn’t mind us. See how he’s saying WhatsApp should fix their service 😂

— 7ilaw (@tilaw_1) October 4, 2021

So WhatsApp is not working and one man in my area is blaming the Ghana government 🤣🤣🤣

— Joe Biney (@YawBosompem) October 4, 2021

Massa make u people fix the Facebook , WhatsApp and Instagram for us ooo because in Ghana students are writing their final Wassce and is best place they will get something to learn . pic.twitter.com/yMYdiRgEj0

— KassimNicholas (@KassimNicholas5) October 4, 2021

Bruh what if today was the last day we could ever access our Facebook and Instagram accounts?? Like what if they just shut that shit down completely 🥴🥴😂😂

— ItsBee (@Prolific_AshB) October 4, 2021