Error 503 | Twitter abuzz with reactions on global internet outage

Screenshot of the error message as seen on one of the global news website’s home page

Major foreign news websites such as New York Times, BBC, CNN, Reddit, along with other sites such as Amazon and Spotify suffered a global outage on June 8. Users were returned an error that read: “Error 503 Service Unavailable.”

The glitch that brought swaths of the internet down was a result of an outage at cloud service company Fastly – all the websites that stopped working use Fastly's CDN services.

As the news of the global outage started spreading, users started rushing to microblogging platform Twitter to check if the news is true. Some said: "We were warned", others assured, "yes, it's not just you".

Reddit, Twitch, Amazon, AWS, Spotify and half of major internet web sites are down, and Everyone is rushing to Twitter to check if it’s true.

Twitter rn: pic.twitter.com/Sem2SS2izV

— SVM (@ShivamChatak) June 8, 2021

Amazon web services down, the internet is broken. We were warned pic.twitter.com/itK9QQGLXr

— Roast Beef Johnny (@roastbeefjohnny) June 8, 2021

No one listened to Jen. Now look.#internetdown pic.twitter.com/XeOe6YijYT

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— Gene McGurk (@magawk) June 8, 2021

The internet being down means I'm contractually obligated to post this pic.twitter.com/CcgjAD42bT

— Matthew (@DiscipleOfBrad) June 8, 2021

Yes it’s not just you. Large parts of the internet are down. pic.twitter.com/XMl1nJS64I

— @bbcclick (@BBCClick) June 8, 2021

Regular internet users heading to Twitter while half the internet is down pic.twitter.com/MGZoRYmRXl

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 8, 2021