LOOK: Nando's pokes fun at the social media outage
Nando's once again made fun of a situation that brought the world to a standstill...
On Monday, hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp for more than six hours.
READ: Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?
In an apologetic blog post, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, said that "configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication."
READ: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg apologises for six-hour outage
Mark Zuckerberg also shared his apologies with the world.
"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today—I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about," Zuckerberg said on Facebook.
READ: Did Adele cause the worldwide social media outage?
But his apology was not enough for Nando's.
The fast-food company did not let things slide as the outage landed on the Twitter trends list.
“You don’t have social media updates to prove it? Zucks to be you! #InternetShutDown”, it wrote.
You don’t have social media updates to prove it? Zucks to be you! #InternetShutDown pic.twitter.com/apQZe6b7dU
— NandosSA (@NandosSA) October 5, 2021
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Image Credit: Twitter/ Nando's SA