RAWALPINDI: As Facebook Inc. faced a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company鈥檚 3.5 billion users from accessing services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, social media users, including in Pakistan, flooded to Twitter to post jibes against its rivalling platforms. 

Twitter opened up the fun with a tweet saying: 鈥渉ello literally everyone.鈥� 

In one of the day鈥檚 most popular tweets, video streaming company Netflix shared a meme from its new hit show 鈥淪quid Game鈥� captioned 鈥淲hen Instagram & Facebook are down,鈥� that showed a person labeled 鈥淭witter鈥� holding up a character on the verge of falling labeled 鈥渆veryone.鈥�

Pakistan Twitter too did what Pakistan Twitter does best 鈥� have a laugh and turn to humor to make the most of the situation, with hundreds of thousands of tweets about the outage popping up on the site overnight.

Twitter鈥檚 resident funny person @Mahobilli posted a meme of other apps giving Twitter the stink eye in the form of a grumpy cat.

With Whatsapp down, major teleco firm Jazz turned to Twitter to remind people of a service that was always reliable: 鈥�3 letters: S M S.鈥�

Many tweeps also poked fun at the government, asking how it was being run since Whatsapp was down, referring to ubiquitous Pakistani jokes that politics was done mostly on social media now.

Others decided to poke a little fun at 鈥榮low鈥� Internet providers in Pakistan with Twitter user @Arhuml92 writing, 鈥淧TCL users still don鈥檛 know Facebook is down.鈥�

PTCL, a telecom based in Pakistan, quickly sent out a reassuring message to its users: 鈥淲hatsApp and Facebook services are down globally and we assure you that there is no issue on our end.鈥�

Twitter user @ashaqeens wrote in response: 鈥淧TCL really said 鈥榠t鈥檚 not my mistake this time please stop yelling at me.鈥�

Others quipped about how the outage was impacting their lives. 

Islamabad police woman Amna Baig said: 鈥淒oing actual policing now that SM [social media] is down.鈥�

Sports journalist Faizan Lakhani shared a popular gif of a frustrated, bored boy, saying admins of popular WhatsApp groups suddenly had nothing to do.

Journalist Safia Mahmood wrote, 鈥渂ro whatsapp, facebook, insta down鈥� how do i tell my fam I鈥檓 alive.鈥�