Early Tuesday morning, Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM and Hipchat have crashed and social media users wonder has the Blizzard of 2015 crushed the Internet? Fortunately, the outage only lasted for about an hour. And then everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
While people were bracing for the Blizzard of 2015, the internet failed them. New Jersey, New York and Connecticut had all declared a state of emergency, according to WNBC-TV .
Visitors to Facebook were greeted by the message "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Go Back" or simply experienced a "Cannot find server."
"We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience."
Less than an hour later, Facebook and it's sister company Instagram were back online and the Internet let out a sigh relief.
As of publication, the reason behind the outages have not been revealed. According to CNBC , the outages have not be linked to cyberattacks.
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