Just days after being acquired by Facebook for $19 billion, WhatsApp suffered an outage Saturday afternoon and has been down for the past few hours.
Given the fact that today’s problems occurred less than a week after Facebook spent an insane amount of money for the mobile messaging service — which was also the biggest venture-backed acquisition in history — lots of people poked fun at the situation on Twitter:
WhatsApp undergoes some downtime, as founders are too busy counting out their Facebook billions one bill at a time
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) February 22, 2014
Shut it down #whatsapp pic.twitter.com/SW3hWYo5oe
— Novy♍ (@Novytique) February 22, 2014
If you ask the Internet 'Why is WhatsApp down?', everyone – EVERYONE – will give you the same answer. pic.twitter.com/8ZSYDBdW9c
— James Whatley (@Whatleydude) February 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/daddy_san/status/437305223661371392
If you can't beat it, buy it and shut it down. #whatsapp #facebook
— Batoul (@BatoulHussein) February 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/Dorkstar/status/437302126532771840
https://twitter.com/DoctorAdamJ/status/437300820368175104
One company took advantage of the outage by promoting its product:
Whatsapp is down. Get something up. Keep calm and make love. Durex has you covered.
— Durex Kenya (@DurexKE) February 22, 2014
As of 2 p.m. PT Saturday, WhatsApp was still down. The service has experienced brief outages about once every 30 days for the past several months, but this one is particularly noteworthy due to the Facebook acquisition.
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