Conor McGregor (Insider)
Conor McGregor took to Twitter to send in his views about the social media outage, ‘Mystic Mac’ style
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were down globally for more than 6 hours. A major power outage was reported as the reason for the same.
Since Instagram and Whatsapp are owned by Facebook, they are designed on a shared infrastructure, meaning a problem in one could possibly affect the rest as well.
Facebook employees were shut out as well, they were locked out of their own systems.
FB’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is estimated to have lost a whopping $7 billion due to the social media outage
All social media users flocked to Twitter, and so did the official Twitter handles of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.
The social media giant owned by Jack Dorsey which is usually buzzing was a cacophony of Twitterati expressing their views on the shutdown.
Twitter proved to be the saving grace.
Conor McGregor who is known for his ‘Notorious’ behaviour on Twitter, took to the platform to acknowledge the outage.
He wrote:
“Twitter baby, we did it!”
McGregor is currently recovering from the ankle injury he suffered in the trilogy bout against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264.
The highly-anticipated fight came to a premature end, after McGregor broke his left ankle at the end of the first round. The fight was awarded to Poirier via. TKO by means of a doctor stoppage.
McGregor underwent surgery following his ankle break, and has been recovering from the same. He is expected to be back in January, next year.
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