Mercedes And Red Bull Steal The Show Amidst Social Media outage

Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes- Social Media Outage

On Monday night, the world stood shocked as major social media servers were down and weren’t fixed until Tuesday morning. Some of these social media platforms included the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp all of them are owned by Facebook and thus, were simultaneously down, meaning no one could browse through them until the servers were up again.

How did F1 teams react to this?

Everyone rushed to Twitter to see if they were the only ones facing the problem or was is it everyone who was getting troubled by this error. Twitter also held the record for most users active at the same time on the app, seeing this, F1 teams made no mistake and pounced on this opportunity.

Formula 1 teams are very active on Twitter and were leaving no chance yesterday as they had a huge audience to entertain yesterday. All drivers and teams tweeted about this situation as we look at the best tweets by F1 teams and drivers amidst the global social media outage.

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Our first podium ? ???? ? Twitter created ? pic.twitter.com/ICFXg1uBfX
— Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) October 4, 2021

Mercedes jokes about the situation as well:

If Twitter goes down, let's agree to meet at the 2020 Turkish GP.
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) October 4, 2021

No IG, no WhatsApp ? Are we back in 2005? ? pic.twitter.com/YgYwIqEJXa
— Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) October 4, 2021

Lance Stroll takes a dig at Whatsapp:

Hope your all having a better night than the guys at WhatsApp HQ ?
— Lance Stroll (@lance_stroll) October 4, 2021

Williams join Red Bull and Mercedes as well:

Waiting for Facebook and Instagram to come back online…⏳

Twitter team, how's it going? ? pic.twitter.com/dGkEb7tLI6
— Williams Racing (@WilliamsRacing) October 4, 2021