It's no secret that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg aren't on the greatest of terms, especially after their highly anticipated fight failed to come to fruition last year. We may not ever see the Twitter/X head and the Meta boss square off in the ring, but Musk is still getting some shots in at his nemesis via social media. If you were online today, you might've noticed some outages occurring across Instagram and Facebook, leaving some users frustrated and unable to share content or communicate with loved ones.
Thankfully, things are back to normal at the time of publication, but they weren't fixed before the Tesla CEO threw shade at Zuckerberg. "If you're reading this post, it's because our servers are working," he tweeted mid-way through Tuesday (March 5) morning. Meanwhile, anyone trying to view the latest posts over on Meta-owned apps was rendered unable to refresh their feed or upload anything of their own.
Elon Musk Confirms Twitter/X is Stable During Meta Outages
Minutes later, Musk posted a meme from Dreamworks' Madagascar, in which one leader penguin (X) gives orders to three others (IG, Facebook, and Threads). Beneath is a post from Andy Stone, who writes, "We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now." Though it's unclear if the engineer also runs the official X account, they got in on the fun too, tweeting, "We know why you're all here [right now]" first thing this morning.
Since his tumultuous takeover, Elon Musk has handed over many of his responsibilities at Twitter/X to other tech experts. Of course, that doesn't mean he isn't still one of the platform's most popular users. Besides his shady message aimed at Zuckerberg today, we also saw the South African go viral for his response to Kanye West's online comments about rockets. Read all about that at the link below, and check back later for more hip-hop/pop culture news updates.
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